I Was Looking For a Street tells the story of Charles Willeford's childhood and adolescence as, orphaned, he moved from railroad yard to hobo tent city to soup kitchen and desert around Los Angeles, and across the United States. The tale is at once a picaresque adventure through Depression-era America and a portrait of the writer as a young man of apparently little promise but great spirit.
Written late in Willeford's career, this memoir is the work of a writer at the height of his powers, looking back without nostalgia or regret, and preserving in his clear and forceful prose the great American adventure of his youth.
| ISBN: | 9781409152514 |
| Publication date: | 10th September 2015 |
| Author: | Charles Ray Willeford |
| Publisher: | Orion Books an imprint of Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | Murder Room |
| Genres: |
Autobiography: writers Memoirs Classic crime and mystery fiction Crime and Mystery |
I Was Looking For a Street tells the story of Charles Willeford's childhood and adolescence as, orphaned, he moved from railroad yard to hobo tent city to soup kitchen and desert around Los Angeles, and across the United States. The tale is at once a picaresque adventure through Depression-era America and a portrait of the writer as a young man of apparently little promise but great spirit.
Written late in Willeford's career, this memoir is the work of a writer at the height of his powers, looking back without nostalgia or regret, and preserving in his clear and forceful prose the great American adventure of his youth.
I Was Looking for a Street features in the following genres: Autobiography: writers, Memoirs, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and Mystery
I Was Looking for a Street is available in Paperback
I Was Looking for a Street was written by Charles Ray Willeford and published by Orion Books an imprint of Orion
I Was Looking for a Street has 192 pages
Yes it is part of Murder Room series