Semiautobiographical and universal in appeal, Street of Riches is about a young girl's growing up in a suburb of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Here is Christine, the perceptive narrator of The Road Past Altamont (also a Bison Book), awakening to natural and sometimes terrifying beauty, to family history, to the nuances of social life, to sexuality, to selfhood. A mother's romantic yearning for freedom, a father's roving career as an immigration officer, a beautiful sister's early demise, a host of other in very human situations—all contribute to the way Christine will view the world as a writer.
- ISBN13 9780803289475
- Publish Date 30 November 1993 (first published 1 January 1967)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Nebraska Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 247
- Language English