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The author, a journalist, looks back on his childhood in Hammondsport, New York and discusses its influence on his life
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About the Author
Charles Champlin is a former writer-correspondent for Time and Life magazines and since 1965 editor columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
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Much of what we read about growing up in American small towns tells us that life there is stultifying and well worth escaping. Yet Champlin ( The Movies Grow Up, 1940 - 1980 ) begs to differ: "Violating all the traditions of small-town writers-to-be, I was never frenzied with impatience to be away or to experience life as it truly was in the city." Yet he left Hammondsport, N.Y., in 1942 at 16 and has since worked as a reporter, film critic and editor in New York, London and Los Angeles--and in this memoir he revisits the village where he was born. Critical intelligence, not nostalgia, drives these essays, and even expected local color--Saturday nights, the neighborhood church, the gas station hangout--is handled freshly. Without illusions the author writes of being poor, of his parents' divorce and of the Depression: "The image of the gray men sitting on the back porch stays with me forever." Though his prose lacks toughness and bite, and at times slips into repetitiousness, Champlin is generous and realistic in his portrait of "the closeness of the community with its everlasting scrutiny." Photos not seen by PW.
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- PublisherSyracuse Univ Pr
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0815602359
- ISBN 13 9780815602354
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages213
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