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Title: X-Ray Rider 1: Mileposts on the Road to Childhood's End
Subtitle: The X-Ray Rider Trilogy
Author: Wayne Kyle Spitzer
Narrator: Andrew Garrett
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-17-18
Publisher: Hobb's End Books
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Jonesing for a drive-in theater and a hotrod El Camino?
It's the dawn of the 1970s, and everything is changing. The war in Vietnam is winding down. So is the Apollo Space Program. The tiny northwestern city of Spokane is about to host a World's Fair. But the Watergate Hearings, the re-entry of Skylab, and the eruption of Mount Saint Helens are coming...as are killer bees and Ronald Reagan.
Enter "The Kid", a panic-prone, hyper-imaginative boy whose life changes drastically when his father brings home an astronaut white El Camino. As the car's deep-seated rumbling becomes a catalyst for the Kid's curiosity, his ailing, overprotective mother finds herself fending off questions she doesn't want to answer. But her attempt to redirect him on his birthday only arms him with the tool he needs to penetrate deeper - a pair of novelty X-Ray Specs - and as the Camino muscles them through a decade of economic and cultural turmoil, the Kid comes to believe he can see through metal, clothing, skin - to the center of the universe itself, where he imagines something monstrous growing, spreading, reaching across time and space to threaten his very world.
Using the iconography of 20th century trash Americana - drive-in monster movies, cancelled TV shows, vintage comic books - Spitzer has written an unconventional memoir which recalls J. M. Coetzee's boyhood and youth. More than a literal character, The Kid is both the child and the adult. By eschewing the technique of traditional autobiography, Spitzer creates a spherical narrative in which the past lives on in an eternal present while retrospection penetrates the edges. X-Ray Rider is not so much a memoir as it is a retro prequel to a postmodern life - a cinematized reboot of what Stephen King calls the "fogged-out landscape" of youth.
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Members Reviews:
Best read ever!
It takes meaty words like âsucculentâ and âsavoryâ to describe the language of Wayne K. Spitzer as he crafts his unique coming-of-age third-person memoir. Too intimate and poignant to be a work of fiction, the reader is immediately caught up in the rich imagination of a boy destined to become a writer and film maker.
Through the jaundiced eye of a 6-year-old, who grows gradually older in succeeding chapters, we become intimate with an ordinary family in an ordinary town, recently awash in the fame of the 1974 Worldâs Fair and viewed from the window of his fatherâs newly acquired El Camino, a car that fancies itself a truck, or perhaps a truck that wants to be a car.
Images leap from the screen at the local drive-in into the bed of the El Camino where our young narrator shape shifts into X-ray Rider.