Title: Decisive Years
Author: Marsha Bates
Cover artist: uncredited (same guy did a LOT of the Fabian stuff — don't know his name)
Yours for: unavailable (property of "Paperback 250" Contest winner)
Best things about this cover:
- Check out their matching cigarette-holding stances, wrist baubles, and broken left ankles! Double your pleasure!
- "Just don't tell our dad, OK? The runny eggs have caused him disappointment enough for one morning. I mean ... well, just look at him."
- This title is Terrible — like a bad coming-of-age dramedy. "M*A*S*H" : "AfterM*A*S*H" :: "Wonder Years" : "Decisive Years"
Best things about this back cover:
- "Stop! Depression Time!"
- Those girls on the cover are 12 and 13 on what planet?
- AUDYNE = newest entry into "Laughable Names" Hall of Fame
- Oh, man, I can't wait to show you "EACH WON TWO": if you love clownish tales of drunk men dancing in drag at their wives' behest, then yes, "EACH WON TWO" "promises to be a story you'll want to read."
- I've just decided to move "EACH WON TWO" to the top of the list. Look for it as Paperback 253.
Page 123~
"Fine!" Charley said, angering me more. "Now, there's one other little item to take up here. It's about the relationship between Audyne and me. I'm only a foster uncle to her, and my responsibility's been only verbal and charitable."
Yuck. This book is starting to make "Lolita" look family-friendly.
~RP
