A Summer Life - Paperback

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
• | Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library
• | Publication Date: Aug 01, 1991
• | Number of Pages: 160 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0440210240
• | ISBN-13: 9780440210245