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Jim the Boy

by Tony Earley

ISBN: 0316198951
ISBN-13: 9780316198950
Format: Paperback

Summary

A boy in a small town discovers the adult world in this sensitive novel about a child becoming a man. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.

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"An understated first novel....The plot is often so light and airy...that the book practically floats away, leaving the reader with a hole where a heart should be."

   -- Kirkus

"The expert and irony-free minimalism of JIM THE BOY gives it the plain, wholehearted sound of a book for young readers. But the forthright and sweetly humorous way in which Jim's story unfolds is anything but naïve. This book's rural characters seem as carefully chosen as figures in a Greek myth....JIM THE BOY is anything but quaint. Mr. Earley may not have invented the coming-of-age novel, but he streamlines and reawakens the genre with this swift, lovely book."    -- Janet Maslin

   -- New York Times

"Such is Earley's control over his tone that it never quite lapses into cuteness. The risk that it might, at almost any moment, creates a curious sort of suspense. What makes the style interesting, and even daring, is how close it keeps coming to going soft and maudlin without ever crossing the line."    -- Walter Kirn

   -- New York Times Book Review

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published date: 2001
Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.6 pounds
Pages: 239

Publisher's Notes

The old-fashioned story of a boy named Jim growing up in North Carolina during the Depression with his mother and three uncles perfectly captures the innocence, wonder, and confusion of childhood. A first novel.

Other Editions

Paperback - Little Brown & Co (2001) - from $1.00
Hardcover - Little Brown & Co (2000) - from $1.00

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