| Growing Up Poor: A Literary Anthology Contributor(s): Coles, Robert (Editor), Testa, Randy (Editor), Coles, Michael H. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 156584744X ISBN-13: 9781565847446 Publisher: New Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2002 Annotation: Hailed by "Booklist" as "valuable" and "eloquent, " "Growing Up Poor" is a unique anthology of stories, poems, and essays about growing up "without" in the land of plenty. Edited and with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning child psychiatrist Robert Coles. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General |
| Dewey: 810.803 |
| LCCN: 00055927 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.54" W x 8.18" (0.74 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In a land of seemingly endless plenty, Growing Up Poor offers a startling and beautiful collection of stories, poems, and essays about growing up without. Searing in their candor, understated, and often unexpectedly moving, the selections range from a young girl's story of growing up in New York's slums at the turn of the twentieth century, to a southern family's struggles during the Depression, to contemporary stories of rural and urban poverty by some of our foremost authors. Thematically organized into four sections--on the material circumstances of poverty, denigration at the hands of others, the working poor, and moments of resolve and resiliency--the book combines the work of experienced authors, many writing autobiographically about their first-hand experience of poverty, with that of students and other contemporary writers. Edited and with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning child psychiatrist Robert Coles, Growing Up Poor gives eloquent voice to those judged not by who they are, but by what they lack. |