City Boy (2009)
Fiction / World Literature / American / General, - Fiction / Literary, - Fiction / Coming of Age, - Fiction / City Life -
NOT_MATURE -
Herman Wouk
Overview
<br><br><b>The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Cain Mutiny</i> delivers an “enormously entertaining” portrait of “a Bronx Tom Sawyer” (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>). </b><br><br><i>City Boy</i> is Herman Wouk’s sharp and moving novel of boyhood. 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.<br><br>