Ed Starkey

Memoirs of Blackberry Road Ed Starkey

Move over, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn! Make way for Jordy, a delightful, high-spirited, delinquent whose uproarious quest for exciting adventure is heightened by ever-present need for funds to purchase confection and protection - -also for admission tickets for the thrilling Monday night movie serials. Join Jordy as he risks sure death by breathing the air of the dead; as he perches on a lidded rain barrel outside sensuous neighbor Stella's window watching the Friday night strip poker game; while he and his buddies exact revenge on the neighborhood bully with a blackberry bath; when he outruns a railroad cop, only to be confronted halfway across a train trestle bridge by an oncoming handcar, forcing him to drop the high distance into the deep water below; his bout of amnesia when confronted by an angry bar owner, winner of an undelivered punchboard prize; suffer with him through the romance with his seventh grade homeroom teacher that leaves him brokenhearted. Ed Starkey is a very witty writer as exhibited in his 35 books of poetry and 8 novels. Memoirs of Blackberry Road is not only a very funny novel, it is delightful and heartwarming as well.