I Love You, Miss Huddleston: And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood

New York: HarperOne, 2009. K5 - A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Philip Gulley with "Blessings!" written on the title page in very good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and crease on the edges and corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book lightly bowed, some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, tanning and light shelf wear. 8.5"x5.75", 200 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. WITH HIS EAR FOR THE SMALL TOWN AND his knack for finding the needle of humor in life's haystack, Philip Gulley might well be Indiana's answer to Missouri's Mark Twain. In I Love You, Miss Huddleston we are transported to 1970's Danville, Indiana, the everyone-knows0your-business town where Gulley still lives today, to witness the uproarious story of Gulley's young life, including his infatuation with his comely sixth-grade teacher, his dalliance with sin - eating meat on Friday and inappropriate activities with a mannequin named Ginger - and his checkered start with organized religion. Even as Kennedy was facing down Khrushchev, Danny Millardo and his band of youthful Thugs conducted a reign of terror still unmatched in the annals of Indiana history. With Gulley's sharp wit and keen observation, I Love You, Miss Huddleston captures these dramas and more, revisiting a childhood of unrelieved and happy chaos. From the beginning to end, Gulley recalls the hilarity (and heightened dangers) of those wonder years and the easy charm of midwestern life.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.