Praise for Duck and Cover
"Elliott writes with a supple, naturalistic style that’s also psychologically rich. The result is a vivid evocation of postwar America that’s both halcyon and haunted.
“A sometimes-luminous, sometimes-mordant collection that undercuts its nostalgia with complex ironies.”
--KIRKUS REVIEWS
“Elliott perfectly captures Chicago suburban life in the 50's and 60's from the perspective of the kids, triggering waves of memories for me. He mines the culture to explore darker themes as well as celebrate the innocence, resourcefulness, and bravado that marked our generation.”
—LINDA BUBON, Women & Children First bookstore
“The stories resonate with that dual mushroom cloud of the Cold War and that perennial war of teenage self-emergence. The interplay of the personal and the political informs and enlivens the collection, bringing a poignant immediacy that has an eerie déjà vu quality of a requiem to what once was and is no more.”
—MICHAEL COLLINS, author of the award-winning
The Keepers of the Truth
"Elliott writes with a supple, naturalistic style that’s also psychologically rich. The result is a vivid evocation of postwar America that’s both halcyon and haunted.
“A sometimes-luminous, sometimes-mordant collection that undercuts its nostalgia with complex ironies.”
--KIRKUS REVIEWS
“Elliott perfectly captures Chicago suburban life in the 50's and 60's from the perspective of the kids, triggering waves of memories for me. He mines the culture to explore darker themes as well as celebrate the innocence, resourcefulness, and bravado that marked our generation.”
—LINDA BUBON, Women & Children First bookstore
“The stories resonate with that dual mushroom cloud of the Cold War and that perennial war of teenage self-emergence. The interplay of the personal and the political informs and enlivens the collection, bringing a poignant immediacy that has an eerie déjà vu quality of a requiem to what once was and is no more.”
—MICHAEL COLLINS, author of the award-winning
The Keepers of the Truth
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