"This Boy's Life"

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"In the memoir "This Boy's Life," Tobias Wolff touches on a number of issues vital in American society today. They were just as important but much less well-known in the mid-1950s when the story is set and when young Toby and his mother move around the country to escape an abusive relationship. Violence against women is not new, of course, but it was often tolerated in the past, while today it is given much greater priority as a society-wide problem. The story is also a spiritual journey for the young boy, who develops a sense of self in his travels and prepares for adulthood and for a more liberated existence than his mother was ever able to achieve. The book was published in 1989 and was widely read and liked, and in 1993, the story was filmed, much less successfully. For one thing, the film version is superficial where the book was not..."

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