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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780802136688
ISBN: 0802136680
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2000-03
Publisher: Grove Press
Sales Rank: 3969
Studio: Grove Press
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Rating: - Must read if you saw the movie
I have seen the movie over and over and love it each time. It was great to read the actual events that happen and note what Hollywood produced. If you liked the movie the book is a must!
Rating: - Stark portrait of life
Generally the type of book you'd read as a school assignment. Very period - in 50's, I think. Sad story of life as the child of a single mom who marries someone she thinks would be adequate father, even though she knew he wouldn't be a good husband. Not so! Somewhat happy ending....recommend reading if you love to read well-written stories, but definately a downer!
Rating:  - good film , great book
i never read anything else by MR. WOLFF . this book was really a good read and very funny . i could really identify with the boys narrative and observations . i was quite knocked out when the film came out . it was not nearly as funny or fun as i recall the book being . it seems to me , a good deal less of the book was given over to his difficult and abusive stepfather . perhaps that's because i never had one . anyway , at least borrow the book from your local library if you're several dacades or ... Read More
Rating: - Intriguing...
The memoir is intriguing. Any male who reads this can, at some point, relate to the follies, plunders, and disappointments Wolff encounters during his adolescence. It is explicit and candid making for an interesting read.
Rating: - absorbing and painful with moments of comic relief
I'm about 2/3rds through this, and I find it entirely absorbing. Wolff's writing talent is not in using fancy words or complex forms...just one sentence after another of perfectly pitched prose that feels entirely true and believable. He gains the reader's trust and empathy early on and never loses them, even though, in my case, I wasn't much interested in the details of his somewhat sordid and pathetic early years. I keep asking myself this holds my attention, while most memoirs by people I have ... Read More
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