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City Boy Paperback - 1992

by Herman Wouk

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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.

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'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.

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  • Title City Boy
  • Author Herman Wouk
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Back Bay Books, Boston
  • Publication date 1992-05-15
  • ISBN 9780316955119 / 0316955116
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.26 x 5.51 x 0.9 in (20.98 x 14.00 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Boys, New York (N.Y.)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92009040
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Library Journal, 07/01/2004, Page 127
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