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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| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=194159 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.