This Boy's Life: A Memoir Tobias Wolff
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

As Tobias Wolff, author of the memoir This Boy's Life, once wrote, “Memoirists are not writing proper history, but rather what they remember of it” (Source E). Another is Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Living to And of course Diary of Anne Frank. Or, in the case of our children, not publishing what is damaging to them. Oh, and let me not forget to applaud This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff. This Boy's Life: A Memoir List Price: $15.95 ISBN13: 9780802136688 Condition: New Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! A disclaimer at the beginning ought to cover it, but really, readers of memoir ought to know better. BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! Read the disclaimer at the start of *This Boy's Life. It's billed as a memoir about coping with a lifetime of feeling poor, and it is that; but it could also be seen as a memoir about a life like any other: a demonstration of the fact that every life, once you get down to the particulars, is laden with tension, drama, heartbreak, elation, suspense—all the stuff of story, great story. It is no wonder, then, that at the end of This Boy's Life, the memoir form fails to give absolution, fails to really eradicate the narrative unreliability that has led Toby (and the reader) to this end-point.