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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Tobias Wolff

Tags: american memoir

Description: "This unforgettable memoir of boyhood in the 1950s, a true modern classic, introduces"This unforgettable memoir of boyhood in the 1950s, a true modern classic, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by tuns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move. As he fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are at once poignant and comical, and Wolff masterfully re-creates the frustrations, cruelties, and joys of adolescence. His various schemes--running away to Alaska, forging checks, and stealing cars--lead eventually to an act of outrageous self-invention that releases him into a new world of possibility."...

2007-04-08

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Type: poetry

Status: I recommend

Author: Susan Howe

Tags: poetry american

2005-11-14

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Sarah Orne Jewett

Tags: american college short.stories travelfic

2005-11-11

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Art Spiegelman

Tags: american holocaust nonfiction jewish autobio adult.comics graphic.novel

2005-10-02

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Shel Silverstein

Tags: poetry american children's

2005-10-02