I Was Looking for a Street: A Memoir
by Charles Willeford
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I Was Looking For a Street tells the story of Charles Willeford's childhood and adolescence as, orphaned, he moved from railroad yard to hobo tent city to soup kitchen and desert around Los Angeles, and across the United States. The tale is at once a picaresque adventure through Depression-era America and a portrait of the writer as a young man of apparently little promise but great spirit. Written late in Willeford's career, this memoir is the work of a writer at the height of his powers, show more looking back without nostalgia or regret, and preserving in his clear and forceful prose the great American adventure of his youth. show lessTags
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In the first part of this memoir the writer tells of his childhood in Los Angeles, the death of his parents, and being raised by his grandmother. The second half is his story of leaving home at 14, during the depression, and riding trains throughout the southwest. Full of wonderful characters and stories.
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- I Was Looking for a Street: A Memoir
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- Fiction and Literature, Biography & Memoir, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PS3545 .I464 .Z465 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1900-1960
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