Growing Up True: Lessons from a Western Boyhood

by Craig S. Barnes

Book Overview

Written in a compellingly simple style, Growing Up True evokes the struggles of a boy stretching for manhood in rural Colorado during and after World War II. But the lessons and demands of real life... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555913504
• ISBN13: 9781555913502
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

What a joy!

The whole time I was reading this book, I was thinking about who I could pass it on to. Warm, funny, sad. A colorful writer, sharing a bit of his soul. Thank you Craig!

A Boyhood Classic

Craig Barnes has crafted a beautiful, evocative book. This vivid reminiscence of family life in the rural West explains--better than any general work I have read--the beliefs and values and personal strengths that enabled the so-called "greatest generation" to surmount the challenges presented by the Great Depression and the world's first global war. As a story of family life in America, GROWING UP TRUE is a boyhood classic which belongs on the special shelf that holds Russell Baker's book about GROWING UP in Baltimore.