Jim the Boy

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Title Jim the Boy
First edition cover
First edition cover
Author Tony Earley
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Little Brown
Released June 2000
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 240 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN ISBN 0-316-19964-8 (first edition, hardback)

Jim the Boy is a coming-of-age novel by Tony Earley, published by Little, Brown and Co. in 2000. It details a year in the life of a boy who we only know as "Jim," as he grows up in a small town in North Carolina. His father, having died ten years ago, left him in the care of his three uncles, on whose farm Jim has become a farmhand.

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Nashville Musician Paul Burch, Earley's neighbor at the time, was asked to write an album based on the storylines and characters in the book. The album Last of My Kind was released by Merge Records in 2001.