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Growing Up

by Russell Baker, Gilbert Riswold · 1982

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This Pulitzer Prize-winner is "the saddest, funniest, most tragical yet comical picture of coming of age in the U.S.A. in the Depresson years and World War II that has ever been written."—Harrison Salisbury.

Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of thismemoirmemoirMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
Genre
coming of agecoming of ageMore like thisLess of thishumorhumorMore like thisLess of thiswar and militarywar and militaryMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
journalistsjournalistsMore like thisLess of thischildhoodchildhoodMore like thisLess of this
Setting
20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of thishigh schoolhigh schoolMore like thisLess of thisNew JerseyNew JerseyMore like thisLess of thisVirginiaVirginiaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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