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, or the Bildungsroman. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood, often pr...

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Prif Awdur: Millard, Kenneth
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=194159
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.