The Boys of My Youth
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By Jo Ann Beard
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- On Sale
- Jan 29, 1999
- Page Count
- 224 pages
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780316085250
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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"Smart, funny, and moving...A gifted and gutsy writer...This is what a first collection of stories should be."Barbara Fisher, Boston Globe
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"Extraordinary...Beard is writing not with the romanticism of a girl looking up at the stars, but with the brilliant cold light of the stars looking down on us."Ted Anton, Chicago Tribune
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"Beard remembers (or imagines) her childhood self with an uncanny lucidity that startles."Laura Miller, New York Times Book Review
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