Living up the Street (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Gary Soto
- First Published: 1985
- Time of Work: 1957–1978
- Setting: California and Mexico
- Principal Characters: Gary Soto, Rick Soto, Debra Soto, Marilyn Soto, Mariko Soto, Little John, Scott
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Autobiography, Education or educators, Poetry or poets, Brothers and sisters, California, West, U.S., Farms, farmers, or farming, Working class, Latinos
- Locales: California, Mexico
Form and Content
The subtitle to Gary Soto’s book Living up the Street explicitly states the form that the work takes: It is made up of narrative recollections about Soto’s own life. There are twenty-one of these recollections or essays, which cover about twenty-one years of his life and average about six pages in length. Soto arranged these short narratives or anecdotes in chronological order—beginning in Fresno, California, in 1957, when Soto was five years old, and ending in Mexico City sometime after the publication of his first book of poems in 1977....
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