# The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea

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- Book: [The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea](https://www.bookquiver.com/barry-gifford/the-boy-who-ran-away-to-sea) ([The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/barry-gifford/the-boy-who-ran-away-to-sea.md))
- Authors: [Barry Gifford](https://www.bookquiver.com/barry-gifford)
- Publisher: Seven Stories Press
- ISBN: 978-16-4421-152-6
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2022-03-29
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A childhood in the 1950s and ‘60s among grifters, show girls, and mob enforcers who embraced the boy and made him who he is. “These stories make for one of the most important and moving American...