Author

Publication

1989 - Grove Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

72,000 words, Guess

Page Count

288 pages

Identifiers

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  • Goodreads11466
  • LibraryThing7351
  • Better World Books9780802136688
  • Open LibraryOL23065141M

Classifications

  • LCCPS3573.O558 Z477 1989b
  • LCCPS3573.O558Z477 1989
  • DDC813/.54

Description

Wolff's account of his boyhood and the process of growing up includes paper routes, whiskey, scouting, fistfights, friendship, and betrayal in 1950s America.

First Sentence

Our car boiled over again just after my mother and I crossed the Continental Divide.

Subjects

People

Tobias Wolff (1945-)

Times

Other Editions

  • This boy's life: a memoirGrove Press1989-01-01
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