Wolff's account of his boyhood and the process of growing up includes paper routes, whiskey, scouting, fistfights, friendship, and betrayal in 1950s America.
Adaptations (1)
This Boy's Life was adapted into a 1993 film.
This Boy's Life1993 · film · 115 min · dir. Michael Caton-Jones · IMDb ↗When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.
