City Boy


The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Cain Mutiny delivers an “enormously entertaining” portrait of “a Bronx Tom Sawyer” (San Francisco Chronicle).

City Boy is Herman Wouk’s sharp and moving novel of boyhood. 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 torment and fascinate pubescent lads of eleven.

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City Boy


The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Cain Mutiny delivers an “enormously entertaining” portrait of “a Bronx Tom Sawyer” (San Francisco Chronicle).

City Boy is Herman Wouk’s sharp and moving novel of boyhood. 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 torment and fascinate pubescent lads of eleven.

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City Boy

City Boy

by Herman Wouk
City Boy

City Boy

by Herman Wouk

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The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Cain Mutiny delivers an “enormously entertaining” portrait of “a Bronx Tom Sawyer” (San Francisco Chronicle).

City Boy is Herman Wouk’s sharp and moving novel of boyhood. 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 torment and fascinate pubescent lads of eleven.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780316077002
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication date: 09/24/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 337
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Herman Wouk (1915–2019) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning author of fiction and nonfiction. His works include The Caine Mutiny, Marjorie Morningstar, The Hope, and The Glory. Several of his books have been adapted into films and miniseries. Wouk’s early career as a radio comedy writer included a stint on the Fred Allen Show. He later became a naval officer after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Wouk’s novels The Winds of War and War and Remembrance delve into Jewish peoples experiences during World War II. In 1999, he received the Jewish Book Council Lifetime Achievement Award.
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