| City Boy Contributor(s): Wouk, Herman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316955116 ISBN-13: 9780316955119 Publisher: Back Bay Books OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1992 Annotation: 'City Boy' spins a hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures on the street, in school, in the countryside, always in pursuit of Lucille, a heartless redhead personifying all the girls who torment and fascinate pubescent lads of eleven. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Jewish |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92009040 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.51" W x 8.26" (0.74 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An "enormously entertaining" portrait of "a Bronx Tom Sawyer" (San Francisco Chronicle), City Boy is a sharp and moving novel of boyhood from Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk. A hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures on the street, in school, in the countryside, always in pursuit of Lucille, a heartless redhead personifying all the girls who torment and fascinate pubescent lads of eleven. |