{"product_id":"growing-up-poor-robert-coles-9781565847446","title":"Growing Up Poor: A Literary Anthology","description":"In a land of seemingly endless plenty, \u003ci\u003eGrowing Up Poor\u003c\/i\u003e offers a startling and beautiful collection of stories, poems, and essays about growing up without. Searing in their candor, understated, and often unexpectedly moving, the selections range from a young girl's story of growing up in New York's slums at the turn of the twentieth century, to a southern family's struggles during the Depression, to contemporary stories of rural and urban poverty by some of our foremost authors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThematically organized into four sections--on the material circumstances of poverty, denigration at the hands of others, the working poor, and moments of resolve and resiliency--the book combines the work of experienced authors, many writing autobiographically about their first-hand experience of poverty, with that of students and other contemporary writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdited and with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning child psychiatrist Robert Coles, \u003ci\u003eGrowing Up Poor\u003c\/i\u003e gives eloquent voice to those judged not by who they are, but by what they lack.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Coles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 156584744X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781565847446\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.18h x 5.54w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKliatt\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2002 pg. 31","brand":"Robert Coles","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47419535851775,"sku":"9781565847446","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_53020fb5-b318-43ff-8d27-bea07153cdd6.jpg?v=1761512175","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/growing-up-poor-robert-coles-9781565847446","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}