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Item specifics

Condition
Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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“This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .”
ISBN
9780452255500

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0452255503
ISBN-13
9780452255500
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038307891

Product Key Features

Book Title
Growing Up
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1983
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Personal Memoirs, Life Stages / General, Literary
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Russell Baker
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
83-008213
Reviews
Praise for Growing Up and Russell Baker "A wondrous book, funny, sad, and strong...[with scenes] as funny and touching as Mark Twain's."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Lovely haunting prose....[Baker] moves beyond the boundaries of his newspaper column to establish a place for this book among the most enduring recollections of American boyhoods--those of Thurber and Mencken, Aldrich and Twain."-- The Washington Post Book World "One of the most heart-warming, inspiring, nostalgic, funniest, best-written books I have ever read."--Ann Landers "[Baker is] a precious national resource."--Neil Postman "The saddest, funniest, most tragical yet comical picture of coming of age in the U.S.A. in the Depression years and World War II that has ever been written."--Harrison Salisbury, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY "A wondrous book, funny, sad, and strong. . . [with scenes] as funny and touching as Mark Twain's."--Mary Lee Settle, Los Angeles Times Book Review     "Baker has accomplished the memoirists's task: to find shape and meaning in his own life, and to make it interesting and pertinent to the reader. In lovely, haunting prose, he has told a story that is deeply in the American grain."--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
Dewey Edition
19
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
070/.92/4
Synopsis
Russell Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography about growing up in America during the Great Depression. "Magical....He has taken such raw, potentially wrenching material and made of it a story so warm, so likable, and so disarmingly funny...a work of original biographical art."-- The New York Times In this heartfelt memoir, groundbreaking Pulitzer-winning New York Times columnist Russell Baker traces his youth from the backwoods mountains of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the Depression-shadowed landscape of Baltimore. His is a story of adversity and courage, the poignancy of love and the awkwardness of sex, of family bonds and family tensions. We meet the people who influenced Baker's early life: his strong and loving mother, his bold little sister Doris, the awesome matriarch Ida Rebecca and her twelve sons. Here, too, are schoolyard bullies, great teachers, and the everyday heroes and heroines of the Depression who faced disaster with good cheer as they tried to muddle through. A modern day classic filled with perfect turns of phrase and traces of quiet wisdom, Growing Up is a coming of age story that is "the stuff of American legend" ( The Washington Post Book World ).
LC Classification Number
PS3552.A4343Z466

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