Growing up (Plume) Paperback - 1983
by Baker, Russell
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
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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Details
- Title Growing up (Plume)
- Author Baker, Russell
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Adult Hc/Tr, New York
- Date 1983-01-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR005766962
- ISBN 9780452255500 / 0452255503
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.29 cm)
- Reading level 1030
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, Journalists - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 83008213
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
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.
