Back There Where the Past Was - A Small-Town Boyhood

Back There Where the Past Was is Charles Champlin's sentimental journey through the life and times of his boyhood in Hammondsport, New York. "We are all from somewhere else, " Charles Champlin begins. It is from this idea that we not only can share his childhood, but are provided with a better sense of all that we hold dear in our own past.

About the author

Charles Champlin is a former writer-correspondent for Time and Life magazines. He was the editor columnist and film critic for the Los Angeles Times from 1965-1991. He is the author of A Life in Writing: The Story of an American Journalist also published by Syracuse University Press and The Movies Grow Up, 1940-1980.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Champlin
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1999
• EAN: 9780815606123
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-0612-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 399 g
• Series: New York State
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries