Kieron Smith, Boy

An award-winning novel of urban boyhood: "No other . . . comes as close as this to Catcher in the Rye." —The Literary Review

A Man Booker Prize–winning author brings us inside the head of a young boy in a novel that offers a "splendid evocation of childhood in mid-20th-century Glasgow" (The Washington Post).

Here is the story of a boyhood in a large industrial city during a time of great social change. Kieron grows from age five to early adolescence amid the general trauma of everyday...