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When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams Paperback - 2009

by Bob Greene

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From the publisher

Includes a bonus excerpt from Bob Greene's forthcoming Late Edition: A Love Story

"There is something absolutely magical about Bob Greene's voice."--Jeffrey Zaslow, coauthor, The Last Lecture

Running away to join the circus is a dream we're told to put away once we're no longer young. But for the last fifteen summers, Bob Greene has stepped into a universe that is hiding in plain sight: the touring world of the great early rock bands who gave America the car-radio-and-jukebox music it still loves best.

Singing backup with the legendary Jan and Dean as they endlessly crisscross the nation, in the company of Chuck Berry, the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Martha and the Vandellas, and the Beach Boys, Greene takes us to football stadiums and minor-league ballparks, to no-name ice cream stands and midnight diners. Along the way he tells a riveting story of great fame and lingering sorrow, of unexpected friendship and lasting dreams, of the things that keep us going in the face of all the things that threaten to stop us.

Hilarious and heartbreaking, moving and brilliant, this is the trip of a lifetime, a travelogue of the heart, accompanied by a thundering guitar chorus of Fender Stratocasters.

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  • Title When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams
  • Author Bob Greene
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Griffin
  • Publication date 2009-05-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian
  • ISBN 9780312376918 / 031237691X
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category Music/Songbooks
  • Library of Congress subjects Singers - United States, Greene, Bob
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Award-winning journalist Bob Greene is a CNN contributor and a New York Times bestselling author whose books include Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War and Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen.

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