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Coming of age in contemporary American fiction / Kenneth Millard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Millard, Kenneth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bildungsromans, American--History and criticism.
- Bildungsromans, American.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610833986
- 9780748651740
- 0748651748
- 9781280833984
- 128083398X
- 9780748629541
- 0748629548
- OCLC:
- 476052021
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