Henry Raymond
General => Library Announcements => Topic started by: LibraryPrograms on March 14, 2013, 01:32:55 PM
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Please join us for the third meeting of our Memorable Memoirs reading group at the library on April 11 at 6:30 pm. For this session, we’ll be discussing Russell Baker’s powerful memoir, Growing Up. Helene Lang, a scholar of literature, will facilitate the discussion. All are welcome. Copies of this read are still available- pick yours up at the library today!
From the New York Times:
''Growing Up'' is touching and funny, a hopeless muddle of sadness and laughter that bears a suspicious resemblance to real life....Like all the best humor, Mr. Baker's is grounded in truth and mellowed by a sense of the sadness in things.... His laughs are distilled from the juices of life. He draws from a time and a world very much in the American grain: memories of listening to grown-ups rocking on the porch and sonorously reciting cliches or of Depression evenings in Baltimore spent around the kitchen table with endless talk and cups of coffee. -- Richard Lingeman