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Young people and the curse of ordinariness / Nick Luxmoore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luxmoore, Nick, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self-perception.
- Group identity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (146 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is about young people trying to find answers, or at least trying to live more comfortably with the question. Using dozens of recognisable vignettes, Luxmoore explores young people's anxieties about ordinariness and extraordinariness, anxieties that affect everything: their behaviour, choices, relationships, happiness.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A story about difference
- Otherness
- Trying to be interesting
- Ordinariness and extraordinariness
- Special
- A brittle belief
- Ordinary death and ordinary sex
- The road not taken
- What if and what is
- A promised land
- Disillusioning
- Back to the garden
- Ordinary parents, ordinary professionals
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283905497
- 1283905493
- 9780857004079
- 0857004077
- OCLC:
- 711747302
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