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This Boy's Life

by Tobias Wolff · 1989

Biography & Memoir · ranked #12 in category

Tobias Wolff's memoir of his adolescence in 1950s America — moving with his mother from town to town, enduring a cruel stepfather named Dwight, petty criminality and an elaborate scheme to escape to a school he has no right to attend. A foundational American memoir and a study in the complicated relationship between the person you were and the writer you became.

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Category
Biography & Memoir
First published
1989 · 1980s
Author
Tobias Wolff
Standing
Essential Read

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