num_pages: 335
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.
language: English
title: City Boy
titlecomplete: City Boy
genres: Classics, New York, Humor, Jewish, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Coming Of Age, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 1191
publisher: Back Bay Books