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Books by Herman Wouk. City Boy, my second novel, was published in 1948. I had no reason to think then that the book would survive its season, let alone more than half a century. None of my novels ever had a less promising start

Books by Herman Wouk. City Boy. The Caine Mutiny. Marjorie Morningstar. None of my novels ever had a less promising start. Just a year earlier, I had entered the American literary frogpond with a noisy splash, and before that I had never published so much as a short story in a magazine. For my livelihood until World War II, I had been a script writer for the great radio comedian Fred Allen.

City Boy. Herman Wouk. 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. From the euphoric aftermath of that stunning victory in 1967, through the harrowing battles of the Yom Kippur War, the heroic Entebbe rescue, the historic Camp David Accords, and finally the celebration of forty years of independence and the opening of the road to peace, Wouk immerses us in the bloody battles, the devastating defeats, the elusive victories.

In,,City Boy" Herman Wouk has provided a charming look at this slice of social reality just prior to the Stock Market crash

In,,City Boy" Herman Wouk has provided a charming look at this slice of social reality just prior to the Stock Market crash. Written twenty ears after the actual events, the look into adolescent angst is quite insightful and equally relevant today, although not always with such "sweetness" as its basic flavor. Herbie Bookbinder is the pudgy "smart" kid found in nearly every elementary school classroom.

Herman Wouk obituary Over the next two decades, Wouk was the very model of a commercially.

Herman Wouk obituary. Author of The Caine Mutiny and The Winds of War who championed traditional Jewish values and American patriotism. Two novels, the broadbrush satire Aurora Dawn (1947) and the sensitive boy from the Bronx at summer camp story, The City Boy (1948), and a play, The Traitor (1949), were followed by The Caine Mutiny. Over the next two decades, Wouk was the very model of a commercially successful author. His plays were produced on Broadway, and his novels were selected by the Book of the Month Club. A movie was made of Marjorie Morningstar by Irving Rapper in 1958, starring Natalie Wood and Gene Kelly.

Yet at the hot noontide of a sweet-smelling day in June, only a week later, Lennie and Herbie were sitting together on the granite steps of a stoop on the shady side of the street opposite . ating ice cream turn and turn about out of one paper cup. Lennie was on a lower step, looking up humbly at Herbie. It was he who had paid for the ice cream, and each time he passed the cup up to Herbie it was like a peace offering. Every phenomenon, however remarkable, has an explanation. This was the first day of promotion tests

Herman Wouk was born in New York City into a Jewish family that had emigrated from Russia.

Herman Wouk (/woʊk/ WOHK; 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 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. An "enormously entertaining" portrait of "a Bronx Tom Sawyer" (San Francisco Chronicle), City Boy is a sharp and moving novel of boyhood from Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk. 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. by Herman Wouk.

The city boy. by. Wouk, Herman, 1915-. Books for People with Print Disabilities. Internet Archive Books.