{"product_id":"the-last-radio-baby","title":"The Last Radio Baby","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this lively memoir  award-winning novelist Raymond Andrews vividly recalls the pleasures and pains of growing up black in rural Georgia in 1930s and 1940s-a time when families gathered together around the radio to listen to mysteries and sports events  when couty fairs and revivals provided riotous relief from the daily routine of country living  and when double features cost a dime. With incomparable humor  Andrews describes his preoccupations as a child  such as perfecting the art of running-board jumping  avoiding the local bully  Minnie Pearl Massey  and sneaking peeks into the county jail and the notorious \"DeMos\" caf  famous for fried fish  fights  and \"sin.\" Along the way  he also supplies a lost segment of American history  describing the manners  mores  and daily lives of rural blacks-not only the prejudice they encountered but also the sports figures who inspired them  the teachers who educated them  the church that bonded them together  and the local characters who both amused and scandalized them  including guitar-picking  fast-driving  hard-drinking \"Tampa Red\" and \"Old Mrs. Hill \" who had been born a slave and inher nineties ran around with a \"set of fast girls in their sixties.\" These and many other intriguing figures people the pages of THE LAST RADIO BABY  an entertaining  informative  and important view of a time and place in our history filtered through the gentle and generous vision of one of its most loveable characters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945767366709,"sku":"ByrdShop_1561450049","price":92.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781561450046.jpg?v=1769909834","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-last-radio-baby","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}