{"product_id":"the-boys-of-my-youth","title":"The Boys of My Youth","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Boys of My Youth\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJo Ann Beard\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780316085250\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBack Bay Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1999\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \"utterly compelling, uncommonly beautiful\" collection of personal essays (\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e) that established Jo Ann Beard as one of the leading writers of her generation. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCousins, mothers, sisters, dolls, dogs, best friends: these are the fixed points in Jo Ann Beard's universe, the constants that remain when the boys of her youth -- and then men who replace them -- are gone. This widely praised collection of autobiographical essays summons back, with astonishing grace and power, moments of childhood epiphany as well as the cataclysms of adult life: betrayal, divorce, death. \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boys of My Youth\u003c\/i\u003e heralded the arrival of an immensely gifted and influential writer and its essays remain surprising, original, and affecting today. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A luminous, funny, heartbreaking book of essays about life and its defining moments.\" --\u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"The Boys of My Youth | Jo Ann Beard | Paperback | 9780316085250 | New | Essays 1624760","offer_id":50698718249218,"sku":"1624760","price":32.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/816fpSFTT-L.jpg?v=1791573167","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/the-boys-of-my-youth","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}