Chocolate Days, Popsicle Weeks [Mass Market Paperback]

Edward Hannibal (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1971

signet paperback

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Signet Book; First American Edition edition (1971)
• ASIN: B000JPGIAM
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 3.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,010,503 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book that defines struggling in the 60s!, July 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Chocolate Days, Popsicle Weeks (Hardcover)

I read this book many years ago, and have always loved it. That, however, doesn't say whether the book is good or bad.

What makes this book good is that it shows the transition of America during the 1960s in one of its most turbulent periods. In this book, we follow the path of Boston-born Fitzie, an Irish kid who attends college at a Jesuit college, ends up as an officer in the U.S. Army and eventually makes his way to Madison Avenue where he becomes a bigwig in advertising. (Hannibal was or still is president of Grey Advertising, I believe, one of the nation's top advertising firms; and yes, I believe it is on Madison Avenue.)

Read this book if you can get it; it's an excellent work of art, just excellent. (It reads like an American James Joyce in many ways.)

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book., September 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Chocolate Days, Popsicle Weeks (Paperback)

I have read and re-read this book many times since I first discovered it in the early 70's. I just love it, and wish I could find alot more titles by this talented author.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "A funny, trenchant look at a striving '60's couple", August 10, 1999

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S. McGoo - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chocolate Days, Popsicle Weeks (Hardcover)

I bought this book because of its literary pedigree--the author was a Houghton-Mifflin fellowship winner. But I ended up loving it for its wonderful humor, insights, vividly drawn characters and on-target depiction of the turbulent '60s. The protagonist--Fitzie--is a bright Kennedyesque advertising man who struggles with his career, his marriage and his soul. I read it first in the early 1970s and I reread it every several years--it only gets better with age. Hannibal went on to write several more engaging novels (Dancing Man & Liberty Square Station) but has not been published recently---more's the pity...