Nights in White Castle starring lucille beatrice bear

Nights in White Castle starring lucille beatrice bearPicking up where he left off in his acclaimed memoir Sting Ray Afternoons, Steve Rushin brilliantly captures a bygone era, and the thrills of new adulthood in the early 80s. It begins in Bloomington, Minnesota, with a 13 year old kid staging his own author photo that he hopes will someday grace the cover of a book jacket. And it ends at a desk in the legendary Time & Life building, with that same boy now in his early 20s and writing professionally

disillusionments

barrier-busting

but as she's drawn into a group of debutantes with scandalous

They might come in handy later

the harder -- and deadlier -- the fall

in which her Blue Bloods immortals have matured and are now exposed to new challenges

Too bad Callie Vernon also has her eye on the newly made-over Sebastian

An indispensable

King asks readers to question everything—and offers hope to those who will never stop seeking real love

new mothers

and the minor characters that pepper A Portrait of the Artist: Eileen

during the Battle of the Bulge