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The “utterly compelling, uncommonly beautiful” collection of personal essays (Newsweek) that established Jo Ann Beard as one of the leading writers of her generation"Beard remembers (or imagines) her childhood self with an uncanny lucidity that startles." - Laura Miller, New York Times Book ReviewThe excitement began the moment The Fourth State of Matter, one of the fourteen extraordinary personal narratives in this book, appeared in the pages of The New Yorker. It increased when the author received a prestigious Whiting Foundation Award in November 1997, and it continued as the hardcover edition of The Boys of My Youth sold out its first printing even before publication. Cousins, mothers, sisters, dolls, dogs, best friends: these are the fixed points in Jo Ann Beard’s universe, the constants that remain when the boys of her youth — and then men who replace them — are gone. This widely praised collection of autobiographical essays summons back, with astonishing grace and power, moments of childhood epiphany as well as the cataclysms of adult life: betrayal, divorce, death."Extraordinary... Beard is writing not with the romanticism of a girl looking up at the stars, but with the b

Who reads The Boys of My Youth?

Author

Beard, Jo Ann

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316091862

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Collections, History

Rating

4.09 / 5 (125 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14