# The city boy

**Author(s):** Herman Wouk
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-city-boy/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, young-adult, humor, biography
**Pages:** 334
**Publisher:** Pocket Books, a Simon & Schuster div. of Gulf & Western Corp.
**Published:** Mon Jan 01 1996 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780671460136
**ISBN-10:** 0671460137
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-city-boy

## Description

'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.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
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