num_pages: 243
description: The author of "The Barracks Thief" and "Hunters in the Snow" recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout the United States, and tracing his experiences and changes from young boy to manhood against the background of a violent and wildly optimistic America.
language: English
title: This Boy's Life
titlecomplete: This Boy's Life
genres: Audiobook, Coming Of Age, Biography, School, Literature, Classics, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 28901
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: Bloomsbury Publishing