num_pages: 256
description: This novel is a fictionalized autobiography of the author's boyhood in the the countryside of Provence, told through the eyes of a child.Blue Boy is a 1932 novel by the French writer Jean Giono. It tells the story of a family in Provence, with an ironer mother and a shoemaker father. The book is largely autobiographical and based on Giono's childhood, although it has many fictional anecdotes.
language: English
title: Blue Boy
titlecomplete: Blue Boy
genres: France, Classics, Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 185
publisher: Counterpoint