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Wolff’s This Boy’s Life: A Memoir is a riveting, autobiographical account of the author’s teen years. Brought to the Pacific Northwest by his divorced mother, young Toby soon is forced to endure life under his strict and cruel stepfather. Toby’s efforts to get away from his stepfather lead to his self-transformation.

Wolff’s second memoir, In the Pharaoh’s Army, and his novella, The Barracks Thief, both evoke his experiences in the Vietnam War.

Wolff’s brother, the novelist Geoffrey Wolff, wrote a memoir of his childhood with the boys’...

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