A Summer Life
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.
- Author
- Gary Soto
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Laurel Leaf Library
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780440210245
- Genres
- teen, school, juvenile
- Release date
- 1991
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