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Too late American boyhood blues

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Ten short stories about "boyhood"--about boys who age but can't grow up, about boyhood in the messes adults make. They collect under Hemingway's rueful remark about American men: "It's that some of them stay little boys so long, sometimes all …

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Ten short stories about "boyhood"--about boys who age but can't grow up, about boyhood in the messes adults make. They collect under Hemingway's rueful remark about American men: "It's that some of them stay little boys so long, sometimes all their lives. Their figures stay boyish when they're fifty. The great American boy-men. Damned strange people." --From publisher description.

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"Ten short stories about "boyhood"--about boys who age but can't grow up, about boyhood in the messes adults make. They collect under Hemingway's rueful remark about American men: "It's that …"

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