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by Tony Earley (Author)
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 Biography
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.
Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.27 x 5.43 IN
Publication Date: April 01, 2001
Award: Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (2001)
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Jim the Boy
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 7
