I Love You, Miss Huddleston, and Other Inappropriate Longings... by Philip Gulley

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 beginning to end, Gulley recalls the hilarity (and heightened dangers) of those wonder years and the easy charm of midwestern life. I was suspicious of a religion whose highpoint was the igniting of one's head, and my enthusiasm for church, which had never been great, began to fade.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. Gulley, Philip - Childhood and youth, Gulley, Philip - Homes and haunts - Indiana, Authors, American - 20th century - Biography, Danville (Ind.) - Biography, Danville (Ind. They looked quite happy, except that their hair was on fire.

In I Love You, Miss Huddleston we are transported to 1970's Danville, Indiana, the everyone-knows-your-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.Sister Mary John had shown us a flannelgraph of the apostles receiving the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. 25: Gulley with speak and read from 'I Love. Gulley's memoir, I Love You, Miss Huddleston: And Other Inappropriate Longings ofMy Indiana Childhood, recounts his coming-of-age years in Danville. 25 and 26, Transformations Spirituality Center, 3427 Gull Road. 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. AUTHOR VISIT 'Porch Talks with Philip Gulley,' Sept. ISBN13: 9780060736590 I Love You, Miss Huddleston: And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood by Philip Gulley See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 4.25 - 4.29 Paperback 8.49 - 14.99 Select Condition Like New Unavailable Very Good Unavailable Good 4.29 Acceptable 4.25 New - See All 3 Editions from 4.

I Love You, Miss Huddleston, and Other Inappropriate Longings... by Philip Gulley