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I am dating myself when I say that I first heard this book being read by Michigan State University's Radio Reader in the 1970s. I was a kid and thought it was the most hilarious thing I had ever heard. My parents eventually ordered the book from Kroch and Brentano's--pre internet! The book was as funny to read as it was to hear.
It follows the boyhood of the author from grade school to high school. The vagaries of a Catholic school education are told with great humor. If you liked the boyhood-related essays of Jean Shepherd, this may appeal to you.
As to the title: the nuns told girls to avoid patent leather shoes because they supposedly allowed boys to look at your underwear--the 1950s version of a upskirt.
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Boys, Catholics, Christian education, Fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, humorous, general, Middle west, fiction, Fiction, biographicalPlaces
Middle West, Chicago IllinoisTimes
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Do black patent-leather shoes really reflect up?: A fictionalized memoir
1975, Regnery
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0809281775 9780809281770
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