Coming of age in contemporary American fiction / / Kenneth Millard [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457306303321
• Autore: Millard Kenneth
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2007
• ISBN: 0-7486-5174-8; 9786610833986; 1-280-83398-X; 0-7486-2954-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 813.5409354
• Soggetti: Bildungsromans, American - History and criticism; American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.