This Boy's Life: A Memoir Tobias Wolff
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

If you are looking for a good memoir to read, here are a few of Nancy Pearl's suggestions. "The Duke of Deception," by Geoffrey Wolff. The memoirs that endure from that period are the ones that look back with love and forgiveness. Tobias Wolff is right, don't you think? It's billed as a memoir about coping with a lifetime of feeling poor, and it is that; but it could also be seen as a memoir about a life like any other: a demonstration of the fact that every life, once you get down to the particulars, is laden with tension, drama, heartbreak, elation, suspense—all the stuff of story, great story. If you were to create a “must read” list for anyone interested in memoir, which books would you include? Oh, and let me not forget to applaud This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff. This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff. That's a pretty good description of one facet of childishness (or immaturity: but that's another story). Another is Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Living to And of course Diary of Anne Frank. In This Boy's Life, a memoir by Tobias Wolff, many important key events have occurred leading up to this point. By Tobias Wolfe Grove Press (March 2000) The childhood memoir of Tobias Wolfe, a respected author, that covers his childhood growing up in Seattle, notably his mothers relationship with his stepfather. In '67 Whiskey', a compelling new fictional memoir by David Martinez, the author's own experiences prove that those who serve are still only human. The Lord's Prayer provides the title of this leisurely memoir/ethnography of a boy's life in a small, provincial town is northeastern Italy in the 1920s. "A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, "This Boy's Life," by Tobias Wolff.