cover image Boston Boy

Boston Boy

Nat Hentoff. Faber & Faber, $7.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-571-12951-5

In this evocative memoir, Hentoff, an author and columnist for the Village Voice, recounts his experience growing up Jewish in the Boston of the 1930s and '40s and the influences that shaped him. PW described the work as ""told with frankness and gently self-deprecating wit.'' (March)