My Last Days as Roy Rogers
by Pat Cunningham Devoto
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Author: Pat Cunningham DevotoEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-02-01
ISBN: 0446675644
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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- ISBN13: 9780446675642
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of My Last Days as Roy Rogers
Book Review: Return With Us Now to Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear...
Summary: 5 Stars
Though the above catch phrase was usually applied to the ole Lone Ranger westerns, the same could be said of this wonderful book: it takes us back to the thrilling days of yesteryear, the days of our youth when the only things that mattered, so we thought, were "Who's your favorite Cowboy?," "Who you like best, Roy Rogers or Gene Autry?" and "Who has the best horse, Roy or Gene (Trigger or Champion)?...
This book is about a time, the mid-fifties, when all the world was young, or so we thought, and the only really bad men were on the Silver Screen. This particular story is set in that last summer of the great polio scares.
It is the story of a young girl, Tabitha, "Tab" for short, and her one last glorious summer before the world--the awareness of a world other than the peaceful, idyllic world in which she lived--collided with her world of innocence, play and peace.
All of the traditional Southern characters are here, all contributing in sometimes delightful, sometimes sad, ways. Life as it was back in those days. Back before it got complicated.
Pat Cunningham Devoto is a gift, a delight and a rare Southern treasure.
This is the first of three books featuring characters who made their debuts in his book. They are characters we come to know,to love and really care about, characters we cheer for and for whom we weep. Good stuff.
One small example of Devoto's writing as her character Tab looks back on the short, but most eventful summer of her young life:
"That night, standing with my back to Mama, washing the dishes at the sink, I said to her, Do you remember what a dandelion is like? All summer it growed into a puffy ball with millions of tiny pieces close together making a beautiful flower. Then when you pick it and blow very hard, just one time, all the pieces of the flower float off into space separated forever." She said she remembered. I said I remembered, too. The dirty dishes blurred before my watery eyes....
"That day Maudie May's world had floated away from me forever..."
If you are child of the fifties, especially a Southern child of the fifties, or if you want to find out or remember what it was like during the great polio scares of that day, this is the book for you. It is, in reality, a book for everyone.
Summary of My Last Days as Roy Rogers
In an Alabama town in the early 1950s during the last polio summer before the Salk vaccine, ten-year-old Tabitha "Tab" Rutland is about to have the time of her life. Although movie theaters and pools have been closed to stem the epidemic, Tab, a tomboy with a passion for Roy Rogers, still seeks adventure with her best friend Maudie May, "the lightest brown colored person" she knows. Now as they meddle with the local bootlegger, Mr. Jake, row out on the Tennessee River to land the biggest catfish ever, and snoop into the town's darkest secrets, Tab sets out to be a hero...and comes of age in an unforgettable confrontation with human frailty, racial injustice, and the healing power of love.Historical Books
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