The Good Times - Softcover

Baker, Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452264227 ISBN 13: 9780452264229

Publisher: Plume, 1990

Synopsis

Picking up where Growing Up left off, the noted columnist recounts his odyssey from writing police reports in Baltimore to penning news stories about the Queen of England, offering his wisdom on the grownup world. Reprint. NYT.

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From Library Journal:

This is a sequel to Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning Growing Up ( LJ 10/1/82). Here, he wryly recounts the mischances and lucky breaks that have guided his journalism career. Aspiring writers will chuckle over Baker's first, horrible day on police beat, his panicked interview with Evelyn Waugh, and his arrival at Queen Elizabeth's coronation in top hat, tails, and brown-bag lunch. Baker comes to realize his forte is thoughtful and satiric observations rather than scoops, and in this book and in his "Observer" columns for the New York Times , he proves he is right. The vibrant personalities of Baker's wife and mother, featured prominently in Growing Up, get short shrift here, although Baker notes that his mother's constant refrain of "If there's one thing I can't stand, Russell, it's a quitter," has been the propelling force of his life. This should be popular with general readers and especially those interested in journalism.
- Judy Quinn, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0452264227
• ISBN 13: 9780452264229
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 351