My cold war / Tom Piazza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piazza, Tom, 1955-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History teachers--Fiction.

History teachers.

Popular culture.

College teachers--Fiction.

College teachers.

Popular culture--Fiction.

Parent and adult child--Fiction.

Parent and adult child.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

245 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : ReganBooks, [2003]

Summary:

I ran upstairs to the kitchen, where my mother was washing the floor. I remember very clearly saying, "Mom, somebody shot President Kennedy." And after I said it, I laughed. Was it the incongruity of such grave news coming out of my own eight-year-old mouth? I remember thinking, even then, I am laughing at something that isn't funny; this is an interesting phenomenon. My mother regarded me blankly for a moment. Then she said, "Oh, my God, " dropped the mop and ran past me downstairs, as if I had disappeared from the room. I stood in the kitchen, trying to process that moment. I had apparently vanished in the glare of History, like the moon in the morning sky.

ISBN:

0060533404

OCLC:

52039590