An imaginative memoir about Marv Mattis, who experienced a wide range of life in the 20th century. A teenage communist at 19 who became a vice-president at Columbia Records in his forties. It's a sensitive and probing trip through the main trends of the second half of the last century as lived by an astute and feeling man with a broad sense of the absurd. Its social, political, human aspects are in gentle balance as one goes from reading about a zygote, hating change, to being with a curious old man riding a streetcar into the sunset. It is written in easy to read prose poetry. It is a book about the innocence of youth and the wisdom of age. By all accounts it is a good human and fun collection of tales about growing up and old.



$18.75, 120 pages.