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Jim the Boy Paperback - 2001

by Tony Earley

It's 1934, and Jim Glass is turning ten in Aliceville, North Carolina. This is a deceptively gentle, nostalgic look at childhood during an era when life was by turns harsh and hopeful. Earley offers an understated, poetic tribute to those families whose pride in and love for one another helped them face hard times.


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Both delightful and wise, Jim the Boy brilliantly captures the pleasures and fears of youth at a time when America itself was young and struggling to come into its own.

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DURING THE night something like a miracle happened: Jim's age grew an extra digit.

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  • Title Jim the Boy
  • Author Tony Earley
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Back Bay Books, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-04-01
  • ISBN 9780316198950 / 0316198951
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.27 x 5.43 x 0.7 in (21.01 x 13.79 x 1.78 cm)
  • Reading level 800
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Demographic Orientation: Small Town
    • Geographic Orientation: North Carolina
    • Topical: Coming of Age
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Boys
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99042901
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • BookPage, 04/01/2001, Page 20
  • New York Times, 04/29/2001, Page 24

About the author

Tony Earley is the author of the novels Jim the Boy and The Blue Star. His fiction has earned a National Magazine Award and appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Best American Short Stories. Earley was chosen for both The New Yorker's inaugural best "20 Under 40" list of fiction writers and Granta's "20 Best Young American Novelists." He lives with his family in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the Samuel Milton Fleming Chair in English at Vanderbilt University.
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