29th Street South

Coming of Age in the Sixties

De: Nicholas Rogers

Narrado por: Tom Jordan

It’s the '60s: a time of war and revolution.

It is a time of demonstrations and riots.

The nation is tearing itself apart.

Robbie Doyle's life, too, is in chaos. Robbie's father had died suddenly. He and his mother had moved to Florida, and now he was lost in a new school and town.

Then the day Kennedy was shot, he would meet people that would define his next years: Samatha (Sam) and Nick, both from the wrong side of things. A principal that was not who he seemed to be and a mother and daughter who both would play a large part in his future. Civil rights, Vietnam, and the draft would change them all.

The one place he found peace was surfing at 29th Street South. Those days would come to define him and what he was going to do when he graduated from high school. The question that would define his life was, would he wait to be drafted or define his own path?

Follow Robbie and his friends Samatha and Nick from the day Kennedy was assassinated when they first meet through the turmoil of those years, and finally the effect Vietnam had on each of their lives.

©2017 Roger Huder (P)2024 Roger Huder

Couldn't put it down

This book 100% gave me that rare, but all consuming 'if I put this book down, I might miss something' feeling. Throughout the entire book, I felt like I was riding on a rollercoaster of all of the emotions that is called life.
29th Street South; Coming of Age in the 60's is so much more than what the title suggests. It encompasses the lives of three best friends, Nick, Sam, and Robby starting in junior high and moving through adulthood and all that is in-between that a person is formed by the events of their lives.
Nicholas Rogers wrote this book in such a way that I felt like I was the proverbial fly on the wall in their lives.
All too often, I will find a book this good and not be able to finish it because of a 'not great' narrator. That is definitely not the case with Tom Jordan. Tom's ability to make the reader see, feel, live what the characters in the book are is a talent only the best of the best narrators have. I have never not enjoyed listening to Tom Jordan narrate.
It was a quick 2 days for me, I imagine that if you pick this up, you will agree with me.