Blue Boy Paperback by Jean Giono

Product Details

• Publisher: Counterpoint (1999-12-03)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 256 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781582430515
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

This novel is a fictionalized autobiography of the author's boyhood in the the countryside of Provence, told through the eyes of a child.

Blue Boy is a 1932 novel by the French writer Jean Giono. It tells the story of a family in Provence, with an ironer mother and a shoemaker father. The book is largely autobiographical and based on Giono's childhood, although it has many fictional anecdotes.

About the Author

Jean Giono was a French author who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France.