An advertising executive remembers his childhood with his eccentric foster family and his early adulthood experiences of trying to establish an independent life for himself.

In a collection of humorous essays, a bicoastal career woman offers a hilarious look at being single in America as she describes being dumped by Dr. Right, the day she and her siblings accidentally busted a prostitution ring, and how she effectively faked mental illness to escape jury duty to keep her job as a witch at 'Madison Scare Garden.' Original. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: A memoir. A wrenching parental divorce; a minority WASP boyhood in the New York Metropolitan Region; living in Jersey City during the Depression and WW II years. Serving with the Army in the European Theater entertaining the troops as a musician-entertainer...read more

Examines Dickey's efforts to promote poetry and himself, as a poet, discusses his prose and poetry, and considers the major themes of his work