An edition of The boys of my youth (1998)

The boys of my youth

1st Back Bay pbk. ed.
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An edition of The boys of my youth (1998)

The boys of my youth

1st Back Bay pbk. ed.
  • 6 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

Jo Ann Beard grew up amid a tightly knit clan of mothers, aunts, sisters, and girlfriends. Her steadfast family and its culture of women somehow made the prospect of dangerous neighborhood boys, friendly barflies, and potential romance all the more irresistible. But in these wonderfully engaging memory pieces, the boys of Beard's youth - and the men who eventually replace them - are elusive characters. Beloved boy dolls disintegrate, grade school crushes dissipate, and husbands disappear.

The relationships that endure are the ones between women.

Childhood dramas are balanced by actual tragedies and adult betrayals, and Beard captures the collision of youthful longing and the hard intransigences of time and fate like no other writer. In the title story, two old friends, stumbling away from ruined marriages, remember the darkest moments of abandonment, but also the thrilling momentum of a car doing ninety and the strange allure of teenage basketball players.

In the end, they realize that in matters of the heart, nothing much, yet somehow everything, has changed.

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English
Pages
208

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Cover of: The Boys of My Youth
The Boys of My Youth
Jun 14, 2016, Little Brown and Company, Hachette Audio and Blackstone Audio
audio cd
Cover of: Boys of My Youth
Boys of My Youth
2009, Little Brown & Company
in English
Cover of: Boys of My Youth
Boys of My Youth
1999, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
Cover of: The boys of my youth
The boys of my youth
1999, Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co.
in English - 1st Back Bay pbk. ed.
Cover of: The boys of my youth
The boys of my youth
1998, Phoenix House, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
Cover of: The boys of my youth
The boys of my youth
1998, Little, Brown and Co.
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Boys of My Youth
Boys of My Youth
1998, Little Brown & Company
in English
Cover of: Boys of My Youth
Boys of My Youth
1998, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English

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Edition Notes

"Autobiographical essays."

"Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, 1998"--T.p. verso.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.092
Library of Congress
CT275.B5394 A3 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 208 p.
Number of pages
208

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27128673M
Internet Archive
boysofmyyouth0000bear
ISBN 10
0316085251
ISBN 13
9780316085250
OCLC/WorldCat
973664582, 232970002

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