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The Boys of My Youth

by [Beard, Jo Ann]

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The "utterly compelling, uncommonly beautiful" collection of personal essays (Newsweek) that established Jo Ann Beard as one of the leading writers of her generation.

Cousins, mothers, sisters, dolls, dogs, best friends: these are the fixed points in Jo Ann Beard's universe, the constants that remain when the boys of her youth -- and then men who replace them -- are gone. This widely praised collection of autobiographical essays summons back, with astonishing grace and power, moments of childhood epiphany as well as the cataclysms of adult life: betrayal, divorce, death.
The Boys of My Youth heralded the arrival of an immensely gifted and influential writer and its essays remain surprising, original, and affecting today.
"A luminous, funny, heartbreaking book of essays about life and its defining moments." --Harper's Bazaar

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Product Details

  • Back Bay Books Brand
  • Jan 29, 1999 Pub Date:
  • 9780316085250 ISBN-13:
  • 0316085251 ISBN-10:
  • 240.0 pages Paperback
  • English Language
  • 8.25 in * 0.6 in * 5.5 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: