This Boy's Life: A Memoir Tobias Wolff
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

By that I mean exactly how many times Wolff used his “creative license. This Boy's Life is just that: a boy's life. By Tobias Wolfe Grove Press (March 2000) The childhood memoir of Tobias Wolfe, a respected author, that covers his childhood growing up in Seattle, notably his mothers relationship with his stepfather. As Tobias Wolff, author of the memoir This Boy's Life, once wrote, “Memoirists are not writing proper history, but rather what they remember of it” (Source E). He writes honestly and plainly about his youth – a time of making poor choices and learning from very few of them. One scene after another doing tremendous work in the narrative, with exquisitely selective detail. Toby's/Jack's identity constantly changes throughout the memoir. Perspectives – This Boy's Life Activity. Individually, go through the first 125 pages of the text and find two examples of where and how Toby's identity changes. Author Tobias Wolff, whose memoir This Boy's Life was turned into the 1993 film of the same name, will give a reading at Bryn Mawr College on Wednesday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. So I finally pulled This Boy's Life off the shelf. My main concern about Tobias Wolff's memoir This Boy's Life is how much of the memoir is actually true. I Hear: To this point, This Boy's Life is the memoir of a child who is coming to terms with the reality of the world in which he lives and who is searching for an idea of self. *Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life, a scene driven memoir; as well as Geoffrey Wolff's Duke of Deception. Wolff pulls together the story of his childhood in a memoir that charms without being charming. Granted, it's the story of a broken home, a sympathetic and easily-misled mother, and a rebellious and misdirected adolescent, but it's still just the story of one boy growing up. Based on the memoirs of the same name, This Boy's Life is a very watchable and incredibly overlooked movie about a teenage boy desperate to escape his dead-end town and abusive stepfather. The two are so mingled sometimes.” Wolff's own life became famous in 1993, when his memoir of his childhood, This Boy's Life, was made into a Hollywood film starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Robert De Niro. I was surprised at how good that novel was because Wolff (if he is known — and more people should read him) is better known for his short stories and this memoir. They don't even necessarily have to be true.