THIS BOY'S LIFE by Tobias WOLFF - Textbook - Paperback - Signed - 1995 - from M. Kettner and Son, Booksellers and Biblio.com

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Book summary

Tobias Wolff's dark and eccentric memoir about growing up rebellious in the 1950s is a funny, heartbreaking portrait of a vulnerable boy trying desperately to keep things together as he and his skittish mother travel aimlessly around the US, avoiding the violent lover she left behind. Finally settling in the Pacific Northwest when she marries Dwight--one of literature's most unforgettably abusive stepfathers--young Toby resorts to lies and subterfuge in order to survive and, ultimately, to escape. Wolff's bleakly hilarious narrative, published in 1989, has been justly praised as an outstanding example of the memoir genre, and was made into a 1993 movie with Leonardo Di Caprio, Ellen Barkin, and Robert De Niro.

THIS BOY'S LIFE

by WOLFF, Tobias

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Book desription: NY: Perennial, 1995 288 pp. 17th paperback printing. Signed and dated on title page. With printed announcement on cover: "Now a major picture starring." Text-edges lightly browned.. Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5.25" x 8".

Bookseller: M. Kettner and Son, Booksellers (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 002309
Format/binding: Paperback
Book condition: Near Fine
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0060972777
ISBN 13: 9780060972776
Publisher: Perennial
Place: NY
Date published: 1995
Size: 5.5 x 8 x 0.75 inches
Weight: 0.5 pounds
Keywords: BIOGRAPHY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, MEMOIRS, CHILDREN'S STUDIES

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