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Growing Up Poor: A Literary Anthology Paperback - 2002

by Robert Coles (Editor); Randy Testa (Editor); Michael H. Coles (Editor)

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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.

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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.

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  • Title Growing Up Poor: A Literary Anthology
  • Author Robert Coles (Editor); Randy Testa (Editor); Michael H. Coles (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date June 2002
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781565847446 / 156584744X
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.18 x 5.54 x 0.81 in (20.78 x 14.07 x 2.06 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects American literature - 20th century, Poor children
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00055927
  • Dewey Decimal Code 810.803

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  • Kliatt, 09/01/2002, Page 31

About the author

Robert Coles is a child psychiatrist, Pultizer Prize-winning author, and Harvard University professor. A recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his lifelong work on behalf of children, he lives in Concord, Massachusetts. Randy Testa teaches in the education department of Dartmouth College. He has written two books on the Amish community of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Michael Coles is a documentary writer and photographer who has taught and coached inner-city children.
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