02862nam 22006612 450 991045730630332120151002020706.00-7486-5174-897866108339861-280-83398-X0-7486-2954-8(CKB)1000000000351166(EBL)292371(OCoLC)476052021(SSID)ssj0000358060(PQKBManifestationID)11250759(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358060(PQKBWorkID)10359880(PQKB)10699935(SSID)ssj0000125379(PQKBManifestationID)11142380(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000125379(PQKBWorkID)10026643(PQKB)11440900(UkCbUP)CR9780748629541(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055550(MiAaPQ)EBC292371(Au-PeEL)EBL292371(CaPaEBR)ebr10424721(CaONFJC)MIL83398(EXLCZ)99100000000035116620120514d2007|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierComing of age in contemporary American fiction /Kenneth Millard[electronic resource]Edinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,2007.1 online resource (192 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).0-7486-2173-3 0-7486-2174-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Bildungsromans, AmericanHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismBildungsromans, AmericanHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.813.5409354Millard Kenneth1050641UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910457306303321Coming of age in contemporary American fiction2480578UNINA