9780451168382-0451168380-Growing Up

Growing Up

ISBN-13: 9780451168382
ISBN-10: 0451168380
Edition: Reissue
Author: Russell Baker
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Berkley
Format: Paperback 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780451168382
ISBN-10: 0451168380
Edition: Reissue
Author: Russell Baker
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Berkley
Format: Paperback 352 pages

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Growing Up (ISBN-13: 9780451168382 and ISBN-10: 0451168380), written by authors Russell Baker, was published by Berkley in 1992. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Journalists (Professionals & Academics) books. You can easily purchase or rent Growing Up (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Journalists books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.42.

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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).
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