I Still Dream About Columbus
by Jack M. Bickham
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0312402767
- ISBN 13
- 9780312402761
- Seller
-
Mulvane, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
As new, unread, unopened copy in like jacket, as shown, Still in Shrink Wrap.
KIRKUS REVIEW
Depression childhood in Columbus, Ohio--as remembered, with sticky nostalgia, by narrator Kenneth John Riley. The central figure in Ken's dreamy recollection of hard times is Pop, of course--who saves very carefully from his radiator-shop job, gives up his dream of country living ("Son, you can't always have everything you want") buys a house for Mom and the four kids . . . and then promptly has his first heart attack. Other miseries soon follow: jovial Uncle Jack loses his business, commits suicide; Ken shoots his beloved dog by mistake; the family loses everything when the bank fails; they're too poor for a Christmas tree (Ken and sister Gall, in tears, nail some branches to a dead tree trunk). And then the Klan zeroes in on the Catholic Rileys because Ken has refused to identify a hungry Negro who robbed them: thanks to a Klan-connected mortgage-company, the Rileys will eventually lose their house. Bickham, however--as readers of All the Days Were Summer (1981) will recall--is big on silver linings and non-stop platitudes: ""if you work hard enough and keep your nose clean, you'll do alright in this country. . . . We have to believe in people because it's through people that we experience God."" So, despite the many hard-luck happenings here, this is sweetly preachy stuff--only for those partial to unremitting Uplift and patched-knickers nobility.
Insurance & handling is included free. Extra Charges/Fees apply on Shipments Outside The U.S. and Expedited Shipments. Oversize and/or heavy books may require additional fees. Will advise Updated 2.26.23 Biblio 9.28.2020 #685-122818
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Eve's Reads (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #685-122818
- Title
- I Still Dream About Columbus
- Author
- Jack M. Bickham
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ed, 1st Prtg
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312402767
- ISBN 13
- 9780312402761
- Publisher
- St. Martin’s Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1982
- Pages
- 246
- Keywords
- Americana
Terms of Sale
Eve's Reads
Shipping/Handling/Insurance/Tracking Included within the continental U.S. (Free Shipping). Extra Charges/Fees apply on ALL Shipments Outside The U.S. and Expedited Shipments. Oversize and/or heavy books require additional fees. Will advise and will send invoice via Paypal for extra charges.
About the Seller
Eve's Reads
About Eve's Reads
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Biblio
- The Greek root for a variety of words referring to the book, such as bibliography, bibliomania, etc. Also, one of the world's...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...