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Bezig met laden... Growing Updoor Russell Baker
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Russell Baker has written a delightful story about growing up in America between the world wars. It was better than I expected, but still pretty boring, especially the end of the book, as the author has finished college and is nearing marriage. The middle, giving examples of a single mother with 2 kids trying to make ends meet in the middle of the Depression has some interesting insights. The overall story seems rather disjointed, though. Is it a story about a domineering mother or a story of making it during the Depression or a story about a young man's coming-of-age?
''Growing Up'' is touching and funny, a hopeless muddle of sadness and laughter that bears a suspicious resemblance to real life. How wrong I was to expect the normal in Mr. Baker's background, having seen that instead of normalcy, it took precisely the adversity that Mr. Baker faced down to produce his sense of humor. Without the smallest protest, I concede the power of this alchemy. After all, how else would it have been possible for the author to take such raw, potentially wrenching autobiographical material, and make of it a story so warm, so likable and so disarmingly funny? It is also magical that Mr. Baker has taken a story told a thousand times before and made of it a work of original biographical art. Is opgenomen inIs verkort inPrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
For use in schools and libraries only. This is Russell Baker's story of growing up in America between the world wars--in the backwoods mountains of Virginia, in a New Jersey commuter town, and finally in the Depression-shadowed urban landscape of Baltimore. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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