
This Boy's Life
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Narrated by:
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Oliver Wyman
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By:
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Tobias Wolff
First published in 1989, this scarifying memoir has become a classic of the genre, as notable for its artful structure and finely wrought prose as for the events it describes. The book essentially launched the memoir craze that has been going strong ever since. It was made into a movie in 1993.
The story is pretty grim: teen-aged Wolff moves with his divorced mother from Florida to Utah to Washington State to escape her violent boyfriend. When she remarries, Wolff finds himself in a bitter battle of wills with his abusive stepfather, a contest in which the two prove to be more evenly matched than might have been supposed.
Deception, disguise, and illusion are the weapons the young man learns to employ as he grows up, not bad training for a writer-to-be. Somber though this tale of family strife is, it is also darkly funny and so artistically satisfying that listeners come away exhilarated.
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Mary Kerr's "The Liar's Club" is the woman's cognate.
Wolff's brother,Geoffrey's "The Duke of Deception " is the indespesa ble bookend to TBL.
Individually and together they changed my children's lives and deeply enriched mine.
A Sui generis masterwork....
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Loved It!
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Lmao xd noob jk ur mum kek
Nooooot eeeeeeeeven -Jose Orcozco, 2018
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Classic memior
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a story of a life
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it was a good book, but not one that I had to listen to all the time.If this book were a movie would you go see it?
nopretty good
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Poor narration ruins book
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*A Life Full of Abuse and Yet Optimism*
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rare perfection
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Stunningly good
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