by Tobias Wolff · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420425467
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«Vida de este chico» is Tobias Wolff's autobiographical memoir, published by Alfaguara in hardcover (328 pages, in Spanish).
The author recalls his childhood and adolescence in 1950s America, when, after his parents' divorce, he travelled the country with his mother. The boy Toby, who calls himself Jack in homage to Jack London, grows up among maps, alcohol, fights, friendships and betrayals; a bittersweet and humorous portrait of his formation.
Original title: «This boy's life: A memoir»; translated by Maribel de Juan. First edition 1991, in the Literaturas collection.
For readers of memoirs and contemporary fiction seeking a coming-of-age story set in the United States of the 1950s.
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army (1994). He has written four short story collections and two novels including The Barracks Thief (1984), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Wolff received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in September 2015.
