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California childhood : recollections and stories of the Golden State
- Title
- California childhood : recollections and stories of the Golden State / edited by Gary Soto.
- Publication
- Berkeley : Creative Arts Books Co., 1988.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS571.C2 C14 1988 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 255 p. : ports.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- A collection of thirty-two prose reminiscences about growing up in California in the twentieth-century.
- Alternative Title
- Land of boyhood.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- American prose literature > California
- Authors, American > Homes and haunts > California
- American prose literature > 20th century
- Children > California > Literary collections
- Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
- American prose literature
- Authors, American
- Authors, American > Homes and haunts
- Children
- Intellectual life
- Manners and customs
- California > Social life and customs
- California > Literary collections
- California > Intellectual life
- California > Biography
- California
- Genre/Form
- Literature
- Biographies
- Literary collections
- Biographies.
- Literature.
- Littérature.
- Source (note)
- Mary Jane and Daniel Woodward;
- Contents
- Brothers Keepers / by Floyd Salas -- South Wolf Creek / by Bill Hotchkiss -- A Christtmas Story / by Clark Brown -- A Juk-Sing Opera / by Genny Lim -- Little Girl Days / by Devorah Major -- How I Started Writing Poetry / by Reginald Lockett -- The Last Word / by Valerie Miner -- Siddhartha / by Thomas Simmons -- Fire Season / by Domenic Stansberry -- The Dangerous Uncle / by James D. Houston -- Water Witch / by Louis Owens -- Going in Naked / by Richard Dokey -- The Quiet Girl / by Maxine Hong Kingston -- Chowchilla Summertime, 1956 / by Frank A. Cross, Jr. -- Guggenheim's Water Tower, Fresno, 1921 / by William Saroyan -- Being Mean, by Gary Soto -- My First Kill / by Art Cuelho -- Splitting Extraversion / by Michael Blaine -- The Horned Toad / by Gerald Haslam -- Breaking One Hundred / by William Rintoul -- Ojaji, 1959 / by Valerie Hobbs -- Flat Serve / by Christopher Buckley -- Recollections of a Valley Past / by Catherine Mulholland -- Land of Boyhood / by Lawrence Clark Powell -- Prejudice, Hate, and the First World War / by M.F.K. Fisher -- The Double, Double Line / by Michael Petracca -- Chochis and the Movies at Sanfer / by Mary Helen Ponce -- In the Center of the Outskirts / by Leonard Nathan -- Saint Aloysius / by Danny Romero -- Life Among the Oilfields / by Hisaye Yamamoto DeSoto -- The Republic of Burma Shave / by Richard Katrovas -- Songs My Mother Taught Me / by Wakako Yamauchi.
- ISBN
- 0887390625
- 9780887390623
- 0887390579
- 9780887390579
- LCCN
- 87030094
- OCLC
- ocm16921349
- 16921349
- SCSB-1703698
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library