Living up the street
Subtitle: narrative recollections
By: Gary Soto.
Series: Laurel-leaf books
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Soto, Gary -- Childhood and youth; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Mexican Americans -- California -- Fresno -- Biography; Poetas estadounidenses -- Siglo XX -- Biografía; Mexicano-americanos -- Biografía
Genres: Biography.
Description: The author describes his experiences growing up as a Mexican American in Fresno, California.  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.