The Last Radio Baby
In this lively memoir, award-winning novelist Raymond Andrews vividly recalls the pleasures and pains of growing up black in rural Georgia in 1930s and 1940s-a time when families gathered together around the radio to listen to mysteries and sports events, when couty fairs and revivals provided riotous relief from the daily routine of country living, and when double features cost a dime.
In this lively memoir, award-winning novelist Raymond Andrews vividly recalls the pleasures and pains of growing up black in rural Georgia in 1930s and 1940s-a time when families gathered together around the radio to listen to mysteries and sports events, when couty fairs and revivals provided riotous relief from the daily routine of country living, and when double features cost a dime.
In this lively memoir, award-winning novelist Raymond Andrews vividly recalls the pleasures and pains of growing up black in rural Georgia in 1930s and 1940s-a time when families gathered together around the radio to listen to mysteries and sports events, when couty fairs and revivals provided riotous relief from the daily routine of country living, and when double features cost a dime.