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Living Up the Street
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Living Up the Street Mass market paperbound - 1992

by Gary Soto

From the critically acclaimed author of A Summer Life comes a moving collection of prose reflecting the author's childhood years in California. "One of those rare books that come from the author's heart . . . and made alive by imaginative spirit".--San Francisco Chronicle. Winner of the Americn Book Award.


From the publisher

In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team. His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.

First line

We were terrible kids, I think.

From the jacket flap

In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team.
His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.

Details

  • Title Living Up the Street
  • Author Gary Soto
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Laurel Leaf Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date February 1, 1992
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780440211709 / 0440211700
  • Weight 0.2 lbs (0.09 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.06 x 4.34 x 0.49 in (17.93 x 11.02 x 1.24 cm)
  • Ages 12 to UP years
  • Grade levels 7 - UP
  • Reading level 1050
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Chicano
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
  • Library of Congress subjects Poets, American, Mexican Americans
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Media reviews

“One of those rare books that come from the author’s heart, tempered by his intelligence and made alive by imaginative spirit.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 03/23/1992, Page 0

About the author

Gary Soto has written six poetry collections, prose recollections, and several books of essays. His first young adult short story collection, Baseball in April and Other Stories, has been one of the most widely discussed and reviewed books of 1990. He is Associate Professor of Chicano Studies and English at the University of California, Berkeley.
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