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The Boys of My Youth Author: 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 the 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 wel... more »
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3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Great book! Quick read, I really enjoyed it. JoAnn Beard is very funny.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
This book was a sloppy, choppy, confusing, all over the place MESS. And boring to boot.
YUCK. I forced myself to read 60 pages then decided to move onto something MUCH more enjoyable and worth my time.
YUCK. I forced myself to read 60 pages then decided to move onto something MUCH more enjoyable and worth my time.
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Rambling episodic memoir, well-written but drooping at the end. Despite the title and the cover image (a rumpled bed), it doesn't focus on sexual escapades, but rather on relationships between women -- mother/daughter, sister, cousin, lifelong friend, with men moving in and out the periphery.
Genres:
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Specific Groups >> Women
- Literature & Fiction >> Books & Reading >> Women Writers & Feminist Theory
- Literature & Fiction >> Essays >> General
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Classics
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Contemporary
- Nonfiction >> Women's Studies >> Women Writers