Man of the Year: A Memoir

Title: Man of the Year: A Memoir Author: Lou Cove ISBN: 9781250123961 Publisher: Flatiron Books Published: 2017 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Memoir 1625672 Publisher Description: Hilarious and poignant -- People Magazine For one 1970's family, the center may not hold, but it certainly does fold. In 1978 Jimmy Carter mediates the Camp David Accords, Fleetwood Mac tops charts with Rumours, Starsky fights crime with Hutch, and twelve-year-old Lou Cove is uprooted from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Salem, Massachusetts- a backwater town of witches, Puritans, and sea-captain wannabes. After his eighth move in a dozen years, Lou figures he should just resign himself to a teenage purgatory of tedious paper routes, school bullies, and unrequited lust for every girl he likes. Then one October morning an old friend of Lou's father, free-wheeling (and fr