num_pages: 288
description: The winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction writes a memoir that brings to life the stuff of boyhood--from paper routes to whiskey, fistfights to friendship and betrayal--and captures as well America in the fifties.
language: English
title: This Boy's Life
titlecomplete: This Boy's Life
genres: Biography, Coming Of Age, Memoir, Nonfiction, School, Literature, Autobiography, Classics, Biography Memoir, Audiobook
ratings_count: 28902
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Autobiography, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Biography, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press