Date of Review:

01/12/1989

Published Work:

Reviewer:

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Source:

The New York Times

Review Excerpt:

So absolutely clear and hypnotic is Tobias Wolff’s painful memoir of growing up in the 1950s that a reader wants to take it apart and find some simple way to describe why it works so beautifully.

Link to Full Review:

Through a Dark Boyhood to a Place in the Sun