This Boy's Life

Name: This Boy's Life
Author: Tobias Wolff

by Tobias Wolff

Memoir of author's abusive father and hardscrabble Western childhood

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Tobias Wolff

American short-story writer and memoirist whose This Boy's Life is one of the great American memoirs. His short fiction, influenced by Chekhov, is among the finest in the American tradition. He is a master of the minimalist style associated with the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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