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Title: Growing Up by Russell Baker ISBN: 0-452-25550-3 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: June, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What's good about Russell Baker's "Growing Up"
Comment: This book - some 348 pages of easy reading - first published in 1982, has received about all the kudos a book can: Ann Landers loved it, the New York Times critic, likewise (though Baker's long time tenure with the New York Times as a Pulitzer Prize winning correspondent probably guaranteed that!), the 'Book of the Month' people blessed it with their vote, publishers continue to reissue it (at least 9 times), and book stores continue to stock it. This book's enduring popularity can't be some accident! The dust cover promises either humor or pathos on every page and I think that's close to accurate. So do yourself a favor! Read this book! It will lift your spirits and improve your disposition. Also, here's a note for some of the previous reviewers: Baker was born in 1925, so this book is not about growing up in the early 1900's, or in the 19th century, or about serving in WWI (Baker served in WWII). Also, Baker has published other books, including "The Good Times" (1992) and Looking Back" (2001).
Rating: 5
Summary: Heart Warming -- Applicable to All
Comment: Russell Baker brings his own life experiences to print as he pulls together the love, hate, anger, and various emotions of growing up into a masterpiece. The book is easy to read and addictive. The ending is emotional and could draw tears, the sign of a wonderful novel.
Whether you're young or old, this book will bring back your own memories of childhood and your relationships with siblings, parents, and relatives
Rating: 5
Summary: The best...
Comment: Russell Baker, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, deserves to be a national treasure on the basis of this book alone. It traces his youth in rural Virginia, from the death of his father when he was only five through his growing up years between the wars. The rest of the book is a paean to his mother, a strong-willed optimist who never accepted defeat as an alternative to success. Her unfailing faith in the talents of her young son were not misplaced. This is an iconic and magical piece of literature, a story of courage and love, of the bonds of family in spite of tension and disagreement.
Wonderful both as a story and as a piece of writing.
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Title: An American Childhood by Annie Dillard ISBN: 0060915188 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR: A MEMOIR by Doris Kearns Goodwin ISBN: 0684847957 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White by Brent Staples ISBN: 0380724758 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Looking Back (New York Review Books Classics) by Russell Baker ISBN: 1590170881 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 09 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody ISBN: 0440314887 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 04 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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