Category: Biography

Copyright/published Year: 2002 by Knopf

ISBN: 0-375-41353-7

Binding: Cloth

Description: Anyone wondering what sort of experience prepares one for a ì future as an engineer may be surprised to learn that it includes ì delivering newspapers. But as Henry Petroski recounts his youth ì in 1950s Queens, New York-a borough of handball games and ì inexplicably numbered streets-he winningly shows how his ì after-school job amounted to a prep course in practical ì engineering.

Petroksi's paper was The Long Island Press, whose headlines ran ì to COP SAVES OLD WOMAN FROM THUG and DiMAG SAYS BUMS CAN'T WIN ì SERIES. Folding it into a tube suitable for throwing was an ì exercise in post-Euclidean geometry. Maintaining a Schwinn ì revealed volumes about mechanics. Reading Paperboy, we ì also learn about the hazing rituals of its namesakes, the ì aesthetics of kitchen appliances, and the delicate art of ì penny-pitching. With gratifying reflections on these and other ì lessons of a bygone era-lessons about diligence, labor, and ì community-mindedness-Paperboy is a piece of Americana to cherish ì and reread.

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