This Boy's Life (30th Anniversary Edition) - A Memoir

The 30th anniversary edition of Tobias Wolff's "extraordinary memoir" (SF Chronicle), now with a new introduction by the author

About the author

Tobias Wolff has received the Rea Award for excellence in the short story, the National Medal of Arts, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives in Northern California.

Summary

“A classic of the genre.”—New York Times

The 30th anniversary edition of Tobias Wolff's "extraordinary memoir" (SF Chronicle), now with a new introduction by the author.






Thirty years ago Tobias Wolff wrote a memoir that changed the form. The “unforgettable” (Time) This Boy’s Life is the story of the young, tough-on-the-outside but vulnerable Toby Wolff. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother travel from Florida to Utah to a small village in Washington state, with many stops along the way. As each place doesn’t quite work out, they pick up to find somewhere new. In the story of their journey, Wolff masterfully recreates the frustrations, cruelties, and joys of adolescence and presents a deeply poignant exploration of memory, dreams, and how we create a self.

Product details

• Authors: Tobias Wolff, Wolff Tobias
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.2019
• EAN: 9780802149077
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-4907-7
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 316 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Utah, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Divorce & Separation, Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Adolescence, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Abuse / Child Abuse, Autobiography: literary, growing up; boyhood; adolescence; divorce; Vietnam; Utah, USA: Vietnam War period (c 1955 to c 1975), Jack London, Toby Wolff, Jack Wolff, Dwight, Utah, Alaska