This Boy's Life A Memoir
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Erscheinungsdatum
28.02.2023
Verlag
Grove PressSeitenzahl
308 (Printausgabe)
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2463 KB
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Englisch
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9780802198600
The PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author recounts coming of age in 1950s Washington State with his mother and abusive stepfather in this classic memoir.
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. As he fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are at once poignant and comical, and Wolff masterfully re-creates the frustrations, cruelties, and joys 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.
Praise for
This Boy's Life
"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
"[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
"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." -
The Philadelphia Inquirer
"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." -
The Oregonian
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. As he fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are at once poignant and comical, and Wolff masterfully re-creates the frustrations, cruelties, and joys 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.
Praise for
This Boy's Life
"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
"[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
"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." -
The Philadelphia Inquirer
"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." -
The Oregonian
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