The Situation in Flushing

by Edmund G Love, Judd Arnett

Overview

In a nostalgic, yet nimble telling of his boyhood in Flushing, Michigan, Edmund Love notes that he was born into a world that ceased to exist almost as soon as he entered it.

In a nostalgic, yet nimble telling of his boyhood in Flushing, Michigan, Edmund Love notes that he was born into a world that ceased to exist almost as soon as he entered it. "In the first twelve years of my life," he writes, "rural America was swept away as though it has been a picture on a blackboard that had suddenly been erased."

The Situation in Flushing is a humorous portrait of a place and people that have vanished from the American scene. With his unique brand of satire, Love provides sharp and amusing insight into the events and personalities that shaped his youth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814319178
Publisher:	Wayne State University Press
Publication date:	10/01/1987
Series:	Great Lakes Books Series
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Edmund G. Love is the author ofn ine books including A Small Bequest; Hanging On; and Subways Are for Sleeping, the basis for the 1961 Broadway musical. He has been a contributor to The Saturday Evening Post, The New Yorker, and Harper’s.

Editorial Reviews

Edmund Love is a superb storyteller and a fine humorist. No somber introduction or search for meaning here. Simply an amusing, intelligent, captivating little book about growing up in a small Michigan town after the turn of the century. . . . leaves you feeling good for days afterward.

Michigan Academician - William L. Blewett

This book is enchantment, pure and solid.

The New York Times Book Review

Edmund Love is a superb storyteller and a fine humorist. No somber introduction or search for meaning here. Simply an amusing, intelligent, captivating little book about growing up in a small Michigan town after the turn of the century. . . . leaves you feeling good for days afterward. - William L. Blewett, Michigan Academician

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