This Boy's Life; a Memoir
by:
Tobias Wolff (author)
The winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction writes a memoir that brings to life the stuff of boyhood--from paper routes to whiskey, fistfights to friendship and betrayal--and captures as well America in the fifties.
The winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction writes a memoir that brings to life the stuff of boyhood--from paper routes to whiskey, fistfights to friendship and betrayal--and captures as well America in the fifties.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780871132482 (0871132486)
Publish date: January 28th 1989
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Book Club,
Coming Of Age,
Thriller,
Biography Memoir
Exquisitely written, desperately honest memoir that was incredibly difficult to read. I had to keep walking away, but I kept coming back for more. I am coming away from this wanting to read every word Wolff ever wrote, right away. He's so penetratingly analytical, so able to distance himself from hi...