A Summer Life (Laurel-Leaf Books)

Type

Book

Authors

Gary Soto

ISBN 10

0440210240

ISBN 13

9780440210245

Tags

Growing Up & Facts of Life, Literary, Social & Family Issues

Description

Gary Soto writes that when he was five "what I knew best was at ground level." In this lively collection of short essays, Soto takes his reader to a ground-level perspective, resreating in vivid detail the sights, sounds, smells, and textures he knew growing up in his Fresno, California, neighborhood. The "things" of his boyhood tie it all together: his Buddha "splotched with gold," the taps of his shoes and the "engines of sparks that lived beneath my soles," his worn tennies smelling of "summer grass, asphalt, the moist sock breathing the defeat of basesall." The child's world is made up of small things--small, very important things. - from Amzon

Number of Copies