Growing Up (Short Stories We've Read) by Russell Baker

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This is Russell Baker's story of growing up in America between the world wars--in the backwoods mountains of Virginia, in a New Jersey commuter town, and finally in the Depression-shadowed urban landscape of Baltimore.

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At the age of eighty my mother had her last bad fall, and after that her mind wandered free through time.

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Russell Baker (Author)

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