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English. Box office. $4 million [1] This Boy's Life (titled onscreen as This Boy's Life: A True Story) is a 1993 American biographical coming-of-age drama film directed by Michael Caton-Jones. It is based on the eponymous memoir by author Tobias Wolff. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Ellen Barkin.
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. 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 ...
Dec 1, 2007 · This Boy's Life. : The PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author recounts coming of age in 1950s Washington State with his mother and abusive stepfather in this classic memoir. This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning.
I'll compare the novel version of This Boy's Life to the 1993 film adaptation, starring young adult Leonardo DiCaprio as the book's author, Tobias "Toby" Wolff, a literature professor and, in addition, author of many other books and short stories.
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Introduction to the Book "[This] extraordinary memoir is so beautifully written that we not only root for the kid Wolff remembers, but we also are moved by the universality of his experience." — San Francisco Chronicle. Tobias Wolff's memoir, This Boy's Life (Grove Press, 1989), is a story about a mother and son trying to survive in 1950s ...
Mar 1, 2021 · This Boy's Life: A Memoir. Audio CD – MP3 Audio, March 1, 2021. by Tobias Wolff (Author) 4.2 1,618 ratings. See all formats and editions. MP3 CD Format. First published in 1989, this memoir has become a classic in the genre. With this book, Wolff essentially launched the memoir craze that has been going strong ever since.
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This Boy's Life was curiously unique example of a memoir - although there were not really any dramatically big surprises or developments (as it is hard to avoid knowing that the titular young man will grow up to be an accomplished writer and college professor) in this low-key coming-of-age story, it absolutely remained compulsively readable ...
