Coming of age in contemporary American fiction

This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the coming-of-age novel. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Millard, Kenneth, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press 2007.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Russell Banks, Rule of the bone
  • Brady Udall, The miracle life of Edgar Mint
  • Geoffrey Wolff, The age of consent
  • Gish Jen, Mona in the promised land
  • Jeffrey Eugenides, The virgin suicides
  • Rick Moody, Purple America
  • Scott Bradfield, The history of luminous motion
  • Mark Richard, Fishboy
  • Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
  • Josephine Humphreys, Rich in love
  • Dorothy Allison, Bastard out of Carolina
  • Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac nation.