9780452255500
Growing Up
Russell Baker
ISBN 13: 9780452255500
Publisher: Plume
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Softcover
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This Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography is Russell Baker's unforgettable story of growing up in America between the world wars. It is the story of adversity and courage, of the poignancy of love and the awkwardness of sex, of family bonds and family tensions. "Magical . . . a work of original, biographical art".--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times.
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"This mellow recollection of maturing amid crises reveals the truth of Proust's dictum that any writer's life can be seen as a preparation for his vocation."
Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times Book Review, 07/23/1995
Review:"'Growing Up'...reveals the people, places and events that created both the celebrated columnist and an era since past."
Chicago Tribune Books, 07/02/95
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Book Description: Penguin Books Australia, Australia, 1995. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Reissue. 254 x 203 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Russell Baker is the 1979 Pulitzer Prize winner for Distinguished Commentary and a columnist for The New York Times. This book traces his youth in the mountains of rural Virginia. When Baker was only five, his father died. His mother, strong-willed and matriarchal, never looked back. After all, she had three children to raise.These were depression years, and Mrs. Baker moved her fledgling family to Baltimore. Baker's mother was determined her children would succeed, and we know her regimen worked for Russell. He did everything from delivering papers to hustling subscriptions for the Saturday Evening Post. As is often the case, early hardships made the man. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780452255500 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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