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In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries the mechanic, but they soon find out that he's an abusive and unreasoning alcoholic, and they ...
Lead: LEAD: THIS BOY'S LIFE A Memoir. By Tobias Wolff. 288 pp. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press. Text: THIS BOY'S LIFE A Memoir. By Tobias Wolff. 288 pp. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press. Tobias Wolff's first stepfather was not exactly a model parent. An alcoholic sadist who humiliated his young charge and regularly beat him up, he also ...
Robert McCammon. Open Road Media, Oct 18, 2011 - Fiction - 582 pages. An Alabama boy’s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song. It’s 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama. People either work for the paper mill up the Tecumseh River, or for the local dairy.
Jan 1, 1989 · View Kindle Edition. In this unforgettable memoir of boyhood in the 1950s, we meet 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. Between themselves they develop an almost telepathic trust that ...
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Jan 1, 1989 · I have quickly become a fan of Tobias Wolff, since I heard "Awaiting Orders" read on NPR. I recently read "Old School" and then "This Boy's Life", both were great and well written. My only wish was that I read them in the opposite order. Even though "This Boy's Life" was Non-Fiction and "Old School" was fiction, they seemed to be one story.
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Tobias Wolff is the author of the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School, the memoirs This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army, and the short story collections In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Back in the World, and The Night in Question. His most recent collection of short stories, Our Story Begins, won The Story Prize for 2008 ...
