This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff
Blurb for the back cover:
“quite ordinary”
I’ve read a lot of modern memoirs in my day. They tend to be tales about people living an unusual life. However, I quiet figure out Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life. It’s quite ordinary compared to other memoirs.
Tobias Wolff I know is considered in high regard around the literary circuit. He’s written short stories, won awards, and recently put out the book Our Story Begins. What I don’t get is why we should care about his childhood. Why did his story need to be a memoir?
Now, in contrast and here is where I get confused, I liked This Boy’s Life. The story may not have been anything special but it was fun to read. Tobias explores his childhood as he deals with his mom’s boyfriends and later husband. Not a perfect child by any means, he precedes to get in to trouble that is stereotypical of any teenager: drinking, sneaking out, etc. To me this book never takes itself seriously and has no drastic conflict other than Tobias versus other people who see him as a trouble maker.
The book ends abruptly and seems rushed towards the end. There is a follow-up memoir, In Pharaoh’s Army, which from what I gather picks up where this book leaves off.
In the end, I don’t understand the purpose of this book, but once I got over that I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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