Growing Up by Gilbert Riswold, Russell Baker

Growing Up

Gilbert Riswold, Russell Baker

352 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced

Description

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.

Community Reviews Summary of 141 reviews

Moods

funny 75%
reflective 75%
hopeful 50%
informative 50%
lighthearted 50%
adventurous 25%
relaxing 25%
sad 25%

Pace

slow 50%
medium 50%

Average rating

3.65

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