01217nam a2200217u 4500 MeVbMML 20250624131943.0 ta 000722|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 0-316-08525-1 AJM Beard, Jo Ann 20304 The boys of my youth / Jo Ann Beard Boston Little, Brow and Compnay 1998 208 p. 31 cm D., 7/2000 Rarely does the debut of a new writer garner such attention & acclaim. The excitement began the moment "The Fourth State of Matter," one of the fourteen extraordinary personal narratives in this book, appeared in the pages of the New Yorker. It increased when the author received a prestigious Whiting Foundation Award in November 1997, & it continued as the hardcover edition of The Boys of My Youth sold out its first printing even before publication. The author writes with perfect pitch as she takes us through one woman's life--from childhood to marriage & beyond--and memorably captures the collision of youthful longing & the hard intransigences of time & fate Beard, Jo Ann 20305 United States Biography 20306 ddc BOOK 2545 2545 0 0 ABELJ abelj B 2016-10-26 0 B Bear 12035 2016-10-26 13.00 2016-10-26 BOOK