Through a Dark Boyhood to a Place in the Sun
Date of Review:
Jan.12.1989
Reviewer:
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Source:
The New York Times
So absolutely clear and hypnotic is Tobias Wolff’s painful memoir of growing up in the 1950s that a reader wants to take it apart and find some simple way to describe why it works so beautifully.
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About Tobias
Born in Alabama in 1945, Tobias Wolff traveled the country with his peripatetic mother, finally settling in Washington State, where he grew up. As a scholarship student, he attended the Hill School in Pennsylvania until he was expelled for repeated failures...
Causes Tobias Wolff Supports
American Red Cross
International Red Cross