I Was Looking for a Street

Author: Charles Willeford
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0982094779

I Was Looking for a Street

"I'm proud to say I knew the man who wrote this book," writes Elmore Leonard of cult crime writer Charles Willeford's moving memoir of his youth. Get I Was Looking for a Street literature books for free.
"It is pure writing, never pretentious or forced, never melodramatic, but honest storytelling of the highest order. This is how to do it, if anyone wants to know: how to write simple prose from a young boy's point of view and hold the reader spellbound." I Was Looking for a Street tells the story of the author's childhood and adolescence as an orphan, as he moves from railroad yards to hobo tent cities, to soup kitchens and deserts around Los Angeles and across the United States. The ensuing tale is at once a picaresque adventure through Depression-era America and a portrait of the writer as Check I Was Looking for a Street our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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