- American Authors, Biography, Childhood and youth, Authors, american
Wolff's account of his boyhood and the process of growing up includes paper routes, whiskey, scouting, fistfights, friendship, and betrayal in 1950s America.
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Classical in form, earnest, prestige and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Tobias Wolff
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, Tandem Library, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9785557106320
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First sentence
“Our car boiled over again just after my mother and I crossed the Continental Divide.”
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