This Boy’s Life: A Memoir.

WOLFF, Tobias.

Item Number: 124618

New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989.

First edition of the award-winning author’s childhood memoir. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robin Schiff. Jacket illustration by Jose Ortega. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer.

Tobias Wolff has been praised as "a captivating, brilliant writer - one of the best we've got" (Annie Dillard) and "a master storyteller, a natural raconteur" (The New York Times). The Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, he has now written his first work of nonfiction, a memoir that brings to life the stuff of boyhood - paper routes and whiskey, friendship and betrayal - and captures as well America in the fifties, the time of the Mickey Mouse Club, the "Lawrence Welk Show", and the first Thunderbirds off the assembly lines.