The other five volumes, about parenthood, adolescence, girlhood, boyhood, and infancy, serve as supplements and constraints on what the editors have chosen to emphasize here.
So this unknown, dead author's work rather drew my boyhood imagination - to see universal man.
Evidence from a boyhood friend supported this viewpoint.
And he can never have questioned, from boyhood onwards, that at a pinch there was always someone nearby with whom he could find a home.
Reading and books were social markers that set him apart in boyhood.
He was 'a boyhood hero' who became a friend and colleague.
But there is a mournful undertone as well: a lost boyhood made equivalent to its lost urban community.
She also begins to understand the link between land and family, the reasons why her father is so attached to the place of his boyhood.
