city boy novel de herman wouk (8 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good+. Pocket 1980 Good+/ Light creasing to bright cover, tight pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Grant, Gordon Ilustrador. Book Club Edition. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have light wear. edges of pages have light wear, toning and very tiny dots/stains. mylar-covered dust jacket has light chipping at head of spine and along upper edges and corners.

21 cm , Softcover / Paperback, Condición: Sehr gut. x, 317 pages, Zustand: geringe Gebrauchs- u. Lagerspuren, sehr gutes Exemplar. Text, Sprache: Englisch, 'City Boy' spins 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. 17351 ISBN 0316955116 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 360.

Condición: Good +. Location:908, 1029 348 pp. bookplate 908, 1029.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. reprint edition. 336 pages. 8.25x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Condición: Good. NY: Simon and Schuster 1948. 1st edition. Hardcover 8vo 306 pgs. Good in a fair dust jacket. Covers edgeworn. Shallow horizontal cut across front cover. Ink '77' at top of half title pg. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket edgeworn, chipped, lightly soiled and has small edge tear. Jacket's front panel has been cut across as with an Exacto, not that noticeable under a new acetate wrapper. (New York, Jews, Fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

hardcover. Condición: As New.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. x, [2], 306, [2] pages. Some endpaper discoloration. Cover has some wear, edge rubbing and soiling. Inscribed and signed on the free end paper. Inscription reads: For Dr. Leslie Glenn, my good friend. Herman. Herman Wouk (May 27, 1915 - May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951) which won the Pulitzer Prize. His other major works include The City Boy and both 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, written for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. His books have been translated into 27 languages. The Washington Post called Wouk, who cherished his privacy, "the reclusive dean of American historical novelists". Historians, novelists, publishers, and critics who gathered at the Library of Congress in 1995 to mark Wouk's 80th birthday described him as an American Tolstoy. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Wouk joined the U.S Naval Reserve in 1942 and served in the Pacific Theater, an experience he later characterized as educational: "I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans." Wouk served as an officer aboard two destroyer minesweepers (DMS), the USS Zane and USS Southard, becoming executive officer of the latter while holding the rank of lieutenant. He participated in around six invasions and won a number of battle stars. During off-duty hours aboard ship he started writing his first novel, Aurora Dawn. City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder is a 1948 novel by Herman Wouk first published by Simon & Schuster. 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. Like The Caine Mutiny, the novel is semi-autobiographical in setting and situations, if not protagonist. In 1969 the novel was re-issued, with paperback editions in 1980 and 1992, and according to Wouk was translated into eleven languages. John P. Marquand, in a preface to the 1969 twentieth-anniversary release, likened Herbie Bookbinder to a city-dwelling Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer. In many of his novels Wouk evinces through his characters a love of Dickens, particularly in use of language to set mood. In City Boy he devises humorous twists of language to set a less-than-serious tone throughout this coming-of-age story. Also like Dickens, Wouk expertly manages a large cast of characters, including more than a dozen adults (and a one-of-a-kind horse named Clever Sam) woven in-and-out of a narrative about children, with depictions that ring true both in description and actions. Herbie contrives to have himself (and his sister, his cousin Cliff Block, and his rival Lennie) sent to Camp Manitou (run by Mr. Gauss, the principal of P.S. 50, as a source of summer income) when he learns that Lucille Glass will be there. The second half of the novel skewers the summer camp scene of the 1920s even as it sets up a succession of abject failures and spectacular successes for Herbie. Herbie and Cliff contrive to burglarize The Place to finance a well-intended camp project, and that crime is the device by which all the subplots come together in Dickensian fashion, at a cost to Herbie's bottom if not his psyche. Wouk fashions a moral to the tale without preaching, but the boy's victory in the quest for Lucille proves tenuous at best. Derived from a Kirkus review: This is a tragi-comedy of youngsters, understandingly, amusingly, entertainingly presented, with enough bite in the interpolations of the adult world against which they carry on incessant warfare, to keep it from a too humorous approach. Wouk tells of eleven and a half year old Bronx Herbie Bookbinder's school and camp exploits â" exploits promoted by his desire to be liked and admired for something other than his fat and his brains. With his cousin Cliff he manages a modicum of trou.