A mad scientist and a boy who can't do anything right team up to make a man.

The Upside-Down Man

RUSSELL BAKER

McGraw=Hill

This Pulitzer Prize-winner is "the saddest, funniest, most tragical yet comical picture of coming of age in the U.S.A. in the Depresson years and World War II that has ever been written."—Harrison Salisbury.

Growing Up

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Sidg. & J

Reveals the places to go and sights to see in Italy for the backpacking student or inflation-conscious traveler including information on transportation, accommodations, dining, and cultural attractions

Poor Russell's Almanac

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

St Martins Pr

Kirkus' Review Observer"" columns from Russell Baker are the perfect light-beer chasers for the hard-stuff of daily news--but few of the short pieces in this pleasant, bland collection stand up well to the sterner tests of time and hard-cover compilation. The most obvious sufferers from the format, of course, are dated columns on the political scene--lots on Watergate--that are usually common-sensical enough (""this suggestion of men enacting boyish fantasies is worse than whatever crimes may have been committed. . .""), yet often over-simplified and a bit preachy. But other pieces that should be less frayed by time--on inflation, language (the ""Have a nice day"" craze), the sexual revolution, city living (parking, cabs, noise), marriage, parenthood, taxes--also tend to seem rather limp in retrospect: Baker can get cheaply sentimental (""Old people at the supermarket are being crushed and nobody is even screaming""); he often runs the risk of registering only as a less-funny Erma Bombeck (supermarket lines, washing machines). And, when consciously emulating Mencken or Perelman or Woody Allen, he consistently lacks the edge needed for that darker brand of humor. Still, none of these never-too-long pieces is without a smile or two, especially for those partial to wistful looks back to cleaner, simpler times. And in certain areas, Baker is superb: TV commercials bring out his cleanest swipes; historical whimsies inspire him to glorious flights of anachronism; and one column here is bona fide classic--""Cooped Up,"" in which the ghost of Gary C. accompanies Baker to movies that have junked all the old Coop-movie values. Less impressive the second time around, then--but Baker fans and others will find it literate, gently amusing bedside reading that's smoothly mainstream all the way.

So This Is Depravity and Other Observations

Congdon & Weed

So this is depravity

So This Is Depravity

Pocket

So This is Depravity

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Presents the best of the author's newspaper columns published since 1962, arranged into a dozen different themes

There's a Country In My Cellar:

William Morrow & Co.

This Pulitzer Prize-winner is "the saddest, funniest, most tragical yet comical picture of coming of age in the U.S.A. in the Depresson years and World War II that has ever been written."Harrison Salisbury."

Perfection Learning

A story of growing up in America between the world wars - in a tiny village in the mountains of Virginia, in a depression shadowed New Jersey commuter town, and finally in Baltimore as the Depression gives way to world war II... (from back cover)

Growing Up/Audio Cassettes (20059)

Mason Adams

Bookthrift Co

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Books by RUSSELL BAKER

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The Upside-Down Man

Growing Up

Poor Russell's Almanac

So This Is Depravity and Other Observations

Growing Up

So This Is Depravity

So This is Depravity

There's a Country In My Cellar:

Growing Up

Growing Up/Audio Cassettes (20059)