[PDF] Fresno Growing Up eBook

Author : Stephen H. Provost
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781949971422

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"Fresno Growing Up" is the first book to tell the story of Fresno during the times we remember, when the city was growing up and so were we. From Al Radka to Christmas Tree Lane, from Harpain's Dairy to Fresno State, Stephen H. Provost surveys the businesses, malls, restaurants, movie houses, personalities, athletes, musicians, and more that made Fresno fun. This new edition includes added and updated information on Fresno in the postwar era, along with, more than 80 additional images. It's a glorious look at Fresno's past and the times we shared.

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 32,98 MB
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0307817431

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In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team. His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.

Author : Mike Rhodes
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 2018-07-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781724466211

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This is a book about how a working class kid from Fresno grow up to find love and a meaningful life. This story is about building a progressive movement that supports immigrant rights, social, economic and environmental justice. It is also about how Mike and Pam raised two wonderful daughters and were able to integrate work, family life and politics into a great life in this Central California community.

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher :
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780892552542

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The Chicano writer presents forty-eight short essays and memoir pieces set in his hometown of Fresno, California, and in the San Francisco Bay area.

Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811212823

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Eleven of William Saroyan's most delightful tales, Fresno Stories springs straight from the source of the author's vision--"the archetypal Armenian families who inhabit Saroyan country, in and around Fresno, California." (Chicago Tribune)

Author : Mark Arax
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1101875216

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A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers—the nut king, grape king and citrus queen—tell their story here for the first time. Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it.

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher :
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Mexican American poets
ISBN : 9781448783953

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The author describes his experiences growing up as a Mexican American in Fresno, California. In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team. His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.