What a great story--and in a way very similar to mine (including both of us graduating in1975): I'm an immigrant and I remember in the late 1960s someone gave my mother a big box of used books which I systematically read over the summer of 1969. I still have several of them including Evan Hunter's Mothers and Daughters ( the first "adult" book--in tone, theme, and narrative style--I ever read) and Cheever's The Wapshot Chronicle (which was incomprehensible to my 11-year-old self, but I could tell it meant something).
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You're right. That is a great story.
Jeff
What a great story--and in a way very similar to mine (including both of us graduating in1975): I'm an immigrant and I remember in the late 1960s someone gave my mother a big box of used books which I systematically read over the summer of 1969. I still have several of them including Evan Hunter's Mothers and Daughters ( the first "adult" book--in tone, theme, and narrative style--I ever read) and Cheever's The Wapshot Chronicle (which was incomprehensible to my 11-year-old self, but I could tell it meant something).
Another good story. I can't imagine reading those books at that age. I was still reading Bomba the Jungle Boy.
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