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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.
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.
The Boys of My Youth heralded the arrival of an immensely gifted and influential writer and its essays remain surprising, original, and affecting today.
"A luminous, funny, heartbreaking book of essays about life and its defining moments." --Harper's Bazaar
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“Extraordinary…Beard is writing not with the romanticism of a girl looking up at the stars, but with the brilliant cold light of the stars looking down at us.”
— Chicago Tribune
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“Beard remembers (or imagines) her childhood self with an uncanny lucidity that startles.”
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“A luminous, funny, heartbreaking book of essays about life and its defining moments.”
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“Smart, funny, and moving…A gifted and gutsy writer…This is what a first collection of stories should be.”
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“Utterly compelling…Uncommonly beautiful…Life in these pages is an astonishment.”
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“Jo Ann Beard’s narration of her autobiographical remembrances of boys [and girls] past is low-key, recounting her early family life.”
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Smart, funny, and moving...A gifted and gutsy writer...This is what a first collection of stories should be.
— Barbara Fisher, Boston Globe -
Extraordinary...Beard is writing not with the romanticism of a girl looking up at the stars, but with the brilliant cold light of the stars looking down on us.
— Ted Anton, Chicago Tribune -
Beard remembers (or imagines) her childhood self with an uncanny lucidity that startles.
— Laura Miller, New York Times Book Review
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About Jo Ann Beard
Jo Ann Beard is the author of a collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays, and other magazines and anthologies. She received a Whiting Foundation Award and nonfiction fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts.