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The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread
Don Robertson
#UC0372
Paperback, 211 pages; 2008 (1965)
$12.95
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The story is fiction; the 1944 Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion, on which the novel turns, is absolutely true. (One hundred and thirty people died as gas from leaking tanks spread to neighborhoods across the city.) In Don Robertson’s beloved 1965 classic, nine-year-old Morris Bird III skips school one afternoon, and walks across Cleveland, pulling his kid sister in a wagon, to visit a friend who has moved to a new neighborhood. It turns out to be the afternoon of the explosion, and Morris’s route leads him toward the inferno. What began as a boy’s mischievous adventure will become a life-altering event. Like Dandelion Wine and Huckleberry Finn, The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread is a riveting adult novel with a noble, young hero. And it’s amazing that the actual event that inspired it isn’t better known.
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