Mozart in the garden : Silicon Valley and me, we grew up together
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Published
[Place of publisher not identified] : Printer's Devil Press, [2020].
ISBN
9781733435802, 1733435808
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LC Subjects
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Gardeners -- California -- Santa Clara County -- Biography.
Liggett, Tom -- Childhood and youth.
Liggett, Tom -- Family.
Liggett, Tom.
Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.
Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Wolfe, Faye.
Biographies.
Gardeners -- California -- Santa Clara County -- Biography.
Liggett, Tom -- Childhood and youth.
Liggett, Tom -- Family.
Liggett, Tom.
Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.
Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Wolfe, Faye.
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Published
[Place of publisher not identified] : Printer's Devil Press, [2020].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
282 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781733435802, 1733435808
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Description
Thousands of cookie-cutter homes for high-tech workers sprouted from the funeral pyres of a vanishing way of life as acres of lush fruit trees were bulldozed and burned to create today's Silicon Valley. One of the children who grew up in this new suburbia in San Jose, California, was Tom Liggett, a neglected, unwanted child of dysfunctional (that's being kind) parents, who befriended the "witch" who lived in the Spanish cottage on the hill. Their unlikely friendship and Tom's adventures are told in this unforgettable memoir. It's a tale of lost dreams, boyhood innocence, and two remarkable characters in midcentury California history. A stunning story-within-a-story recounts the life and times of Faye Wolfe, the last first-person account of a survivor of the Galveston hurricane in 1900, the San Francisco earthquake in 1906, and her connection to the Spanish-style architecture of the region and the sordid history of Silicon Valley-- long before it was ever Silicon Valley-- as told to an eleven-year-old boy in this, his coming-of-age memoir.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Liggett, T. (2020). Mozart in the garden: Silicon Valley and me, we grew up together . Printer's Devil Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Liggett, Tom. 2020. Mozart in the Garden: Silicon Valley and Me, We Grew Up Together. Printer's Devil Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Liggett, Tom. Mozart in the Garden: Silicon Valley and Me, We Grew Up Together Printer's Devil Press, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Liggett, Tom. Mozart in the Garden: Silicon Valley and Me, We Grew Up Together Printer's Devil Press, 2020.
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