Description Kirkus Reviews-Best Books of 2018.
His Short Stories have been published in several magazines, including Confrontation and Aethlon..
He is the author of two previous books-The Competitive Edge: Mental Preparation for Distance Running (1984); and Runners on Running: The Best Nonfiction of Distance Running (2010), which won the Cordner Nelson Book Award, given by the Track and Field Writers of America.
Elliott was a high school English teacher and track coach and later, an editor and producer in educational publishing.
They have three children.
He and his wife Aileen currently live in Valparaiso, Indiana.
About the Author RICH Elliott grew up in Westchester, Illinois, and attended the University of Kansas and then Northwestern University.
The result is a vivid evocation of postwar America that\'s both halcyon and haunted."If you like the humor of Jean Shepherd ("A Christmas Story") and the irony and human complexities in Alice Munro, you will love Duck and Cover. . . . " .
How will the kids of Milford navigate the ecstasies and furies of their era while coping with the universal mysteries of growing up?"Elliott writes with a supple, naturalistic style that\'s also psychologically rich," states Kirkus Reviews.
Commies and nukes, suspicious neighbors and predatory adults, the Mob and the Draft.
Life is fabulous But if you look closer, you see they are shadowed by dangers-the dark undercurrents of a changing world.
They have hula hoops and Stingray bikes, Willie Mays and Betty Crocker, Atlas rockets and new-model Fords, Disneyland, the Beatles, and free love.
The kids of Milford live in the greatest age ever. "A sometimes-luminous, sometimes-mordant collection that undercuts its nostalgia with complex ironies." - Kirkus Reviews Duck and Cover is a collection of Short Stories about growing up in the Sixties.
Reader\'s Favorite-5 Stars.
Description Kirkus Reviews-Best Books of 2018
