{"product_id":"growing-up","title":"GROWING UP","description":"Russell Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography about growing up in America during the Great Depression.\n\n“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\n\nIn 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.\n\nHis 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.\n\nA 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).\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0451168380\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: 31UE34003E1M_ns\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Baker, Russell\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Mass market paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Mass market paperback in GOOD condition with normal wear from use. Cover art my differ from that shown in photo.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43079494893629,"sku":"31UE34003E1M_ns","price":5.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0451168380-0.jpg?v=1775077740","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/growing-up","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}