{"product_id":"the-boys-of-my-youth","title":"The Boys of My Youth","description":"The \"utterly compelling, uncommonly beautiful\" collection of personal essays (Newsweek) that established Jo Ann Beard as one of the leading writers of her generation.\n\nCousins, 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.\n\nThe Boys of My Youth heralded the arrival of an immensely gifted and influential writer and its essays remain surprising, original, and affecting today.\n\n\"A luminous, funny, heartbreaking book of essays about life and its defining moments.\" --Harper's Bazaar\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0316085251\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0316085251.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Beard, Jo Ann\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43124827455549,"sku":"BVV.0316085251.A","price":5.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0316085251-0.jpg?v=1776977875","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-boys-of-my-youth","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}