Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? by John R. Powers Growing up on Chicago?s South Side in the 1960s, Eddie Ryan is learning a lot?and not just from the Brothers at his all-boys Catholic high school. Eddie?s world is populated by peculiar adults, oddball classmates, and puzzling girls?the greatest mystery of all. He takes it all in through the prism of his Catholic upbringing, which often deepens the mystery, but sometimes clarifies it, too. Entering Eddie Ryan?s world will delight not only readers who grew up there with him, but also those too young to remember. 1982, 4th Printing, Warner Books Paperback, 256 pages. Some passages are faintly hightlighted. Cover shows wear to edges and corners. Cover page has dimpling. Creasing to cover and spine. Some discoloration to cover.