Download or read book City Boy written by Herman Wouk and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2009-06-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.