Jim the Boy

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.

Author: Tony Earley
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 04/01/2001
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.43w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780316198950
ISBN10: 0316198951
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Coming of Age

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.