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This Boy's Life: A Memoir

By Tobias Wolff

Book information

Publisher
Grove press
Year
2000
ISBN
0802136680, 9780802136688
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
260 kB (266657 bytes)
Edition
1st Grove Press Ed
Pages
304\0
Time added
2013-03-26 18:06:53

Description

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.

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