· Overview. An "enormously entertaining" portrait of "a Bronx Tom Sawyer" (San Francisco Chronicle), City Boy is a sharp and moving novel of boyhood from Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk. A hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures on the street, in school, in the countryside, always in pursuit of Lucille, a heartless redhead personifying all the girls who ISBN Herman Wouk. ratings reviews. An "enormously entertaining" portrait of "a Bronx Tom Sawyer" (San Francisco Chronicle), City Boy is a sharp and moving novel of boyhood from Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk. A hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures on the street, in school, in the countryside, always in pursuit of Lucille, a heartless /5. · “Had he been found unconscious and naked in a forest,” Wouk quips, “he would have been identified at once as a New York City principal who owned a summer camp.” City Boy is a testament to Herman Wouk’s comic genius, his satiric wit, and his narrative aplomb. The story races to a suspenseful climax, too convoluted and improbable to summarize here but nevertheless entirely Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.
In , his novel was published and soon became the main selection of the Book of the Month Club. In , City Boy, his second novel was published and was a commercial disappointment. During the time Herman Wouk was writing his next novel, he used to take the help of his wife and read each chapter to her. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; pages; HC/DJ. 1st edition of the play adapted by Wouk from his novel. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $ issue price intact to unclipped front flap. A pair of prior owner names penned to the blue front flyleaf, one of which is inked out. Herman Wouk (/ w oʊ k / WOHK; - ) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny () which won the Pulitzer Prize.. His other major works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as This Is My God, an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective.
Herman Wouk (born ) is an bestselling American author, with a number of notable novels to his credit, including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance. He was born in New York City, into a Jewish family that had immigrated from Russia, and received an A.B. from Columbia University. “Had he been found unconscious and naked in a forest,” Wouk quips, “he would have been identified at once as a New York City principal who owned a summer camp.” City Boy is a testament to Herman Wouk’s comic genius, his satiric wit, and his narrative aplomb. The story races to a suspenseful climax, too convoluted and improbable to summarize here but nevertheless entirely convincing and mesmerizing for the charmed reader. City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder is a novel by Herman Wouk first published by Simon Schuster.[1] The second novel written by Wouk, City Boy was largely ignored by the reading public until the success of The Caine Mutiny resurrected interest in Wouk's writing.
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