The Boy Detective, (Hardcover)

from electrascaife

A memoir that straddles the author's childhood in NYC, roaming the streets pretending to be a detective, and his ‘current,' adulthood walking of the same streets, now as a writing professor after his evening class has finished. I know Rosenblatt gets All The Praise for his “memoirs that read li...

from ChazziFrazz

I picked this up due to the title and the cover image. I expected it to be a mystery with possibly a young boy as the detective. It wasn't. It also wasn't a type of book I'd normally pick up. If anyone has looked at the reviews I've written, they would see they're mostly on mysteries. Since I bou...

from knittingmomof3

An exceptional memoir that would be perfect for discussion groups.

from Ronrose1

The Boy Detective could most accurately be called a memoir. It is composed of seemingly random, train of thought ramblings, but that would be over simplifying. The small snapshots of life in New York are skillfully tied together. The author, now an old man, is looking back on the young boy he onc...

from gypsysmom

I quit listening to this book about halfway through. I got so tired of the constant switching between time periods with no reason plus the frequent references to people or books for which the only purpose seemed to be to show how smart the author was. The thing that bothers me most is that the au...