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His memoir, This Boy's Life (Grove Press, 1989), tells the story of his early days in the 1950s—moving with his mother from Florida to Utah to Washington state—and his rough years as a young adult at the hands of an abusive stepfather in a small town north of Seattle. It was made into a 1993 film starring a young Leonardo DiCaprio. The ...
This Boy’s Life is set in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The young Tobias—or Jack—observes many significant cultural moments unfold around him over the course of his early teen years. His mother works on John F. Kennedy’s political campaign, and as Jack and his friends roam the streets of the towns surrounding theirs, TVs in shop ...
Apr 9, 1993 · Tobias Wolff. Novel. Robert Getchell. Screenplay. When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.
Apr 9, 2024 · This Boy's Life is a 1993 drama film directed by Michael Caton Jones. An adaptation of the memoir of the same name by Tobias Wolff, the film stars DiCaprio and De Niro, as well as Ellen Barkin ...
Dec 17, 2019 · 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 ...
Jan 1, 1989 · 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 ...
