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This Boy's Life : A Memoir by Tobias Wolff (2000, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherGROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-100802136680
ISBN-139780802136688
eBay Product ID (ePID)1631848
Product Key Features
Book TitleThis Boy's Life : a Memoir
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicPersonal Memoirs, Literary, American / General
FeaturesReprint
GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorTobias Wolff
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight10.2 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN88-017600
Reviews"So absolutely clear and hypnotic . . . that a reader wants to take it apart and find some simple way to describe why it works so beautifully."-- New York Times "Wolff writes in language that is lyrical without embellishment, defines his characters with exact strokes and perfectly pitched voices, [and] creates suspense around ordinary events, locating the deep mystery within them."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review "A work of genuine literary art . . . as grim and eerie as Great Expectations , as surreal and cruel as The Painted Bird , as comic and transcendent as Huckleberry Finn ." - Philadelphia Inquirer "[This] extraordinary memoir is so beautifully written that we not only root for the kid Wolff remembers, but we also are moved by the universality of his experience." - San Francisco Chronicle "Wolff writes in language that is lyrical without embellishment, defines his characters with exact strokes and perfectly pitched voices, [and] creates suspense around ordinary events, locating the deep mystery within them." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "Wolff's genius is in his fine storytelling. This Boy's Life reads and entertains as easily as a novel. Wolff's writing and timing are superb, as are his depictions of those of us who endured the "50s." - Oregonian
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisThe 30th anniversary edition of Tobias Wolff's "extraordinary memoir" (SF Chronicle), now with a new introduction by the author, This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move, yet they develop an extraordinarily close, almost telepathic relationship. As Toby fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are at once poignant and comical, and Wolff does a masterful job of re-creating the frustrations and cruelties of adolescence. His various schemes - running away to Alaska, forging checks, and stealing cars - lead eventually to an act of outrageous self-invention that releases him into a new world of possibility.
LC Classification NumberPS3573.O558Z477 1989
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