Patent Leather Shoes Really Do Shine Up. Used paperback book. If you like John Powers Last catholic in America, you willl like patent leather shoe although this one is not as smooth a read nor as humorous as his first book, last Catholic
Patent Leather Shoes Really Do Shine Up. Used paperback book If you like John Powers Last catholic in America, you willl like patent leather shoe although this one is not as smooth a read nor as humorous as his first book, last Catholic. These books are really only for those who attended Catholic grade and high scholls in the fifties and sixties.
Tom McGrath (Introduction). Best Catholic Fiction. John Power's book is a wonderfully touching book about pre-Vatican II Catholicism and more specifically life in the South Side of Chicago. Even more specifically in the area of how Catholics perceived the world in 1964 and how the world viewed us, I mean Catholics.
John R. Powers, Tom McGrath (Introduction). I really d. Sarah laughed. Donald Davis was right.
will delight not only readers who grew up there with him, but also those too young to remember. Imprint: Loyola Classics.
Entering Eddie Ryan's world will delight not only readers who grew up there with him, but also those too young to remember.
Fishpond New Zealand, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect . John R. Powers was born in 1945 on the South Side of Chicago.
Books online: Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? (Loyola Classics), 2005, Fishpond. He earned a BA in sociology from Loyola University Chicago and an MA and a PhD in communications from Northwestern University.
Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? (Loyola Classics). 1 2 3 4 5. Want to Read. I am dating myself when I say that I first heard this book being read by Michigan State University's Radio Reader in the 1970s. I was a kid and thought it was the most hilarious thing I had ever heard. As to the title: the nuns told girls to avoid patent leather shoes because they supposedly allowed boys to look at your underwear-the 1950s version of a upskirt. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Studs Terkel, a Chicago radio personality and writer known for his oral histories ("Hard Times," "The Good War").
Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? is a novel published in 1975 by author John R. Powers. It was subsequently adapted into a Broadway musical and a screenplay. The show has become a highly popular choice of regional and community theatres.
Powers wrote four books of fiction, The Last Catholic in America, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect . The 1950s era story from the original books by John R. Powers was also turned into a musical with music and lyrics by James Quinn and Alaric 'Rokko' Jans in 1979.
Powers wrote four books of fiction, The Last Catholic in America, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?, The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice Cream God, and The Junk Drawer, Corner Store, Front Porch Blues. He also wrote the self-help book Odditude. These books relate his experience of growing up in 1950's Chicago. John grew up in the Mt. Greenwood neighborhood on the city's far southwest side. Produced by Libby Adler Mages and Daniel Golman of Mavin Productions.
Powers' charm is universal. A funny, tender, bittersweet coming-of-age tale.
book by John R. Hilarious, touching, beautiful. Detroit News A totally enjoyable novel with at least one laugh on every page. Being Irish Catholic and having grown up in the "big city" (Philadelphia instead of Chicago) myself, I have always identified better with Eddie Ryan than his famous WASP counter-part. Powers' charm is universal.