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Coming of age in America : a multicultural anthology

Title
Coming of age in America : a multicultural anthology / edited by Mary Frosch ; foreword by Gary Soto.
Publication
  • New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, [1994]
  • ©1994

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Additional Authors
Frosch, Mary.
Description
xiv, 274 pages; 21 cm
Summary
A collection of short stories and novel excerpts by noted minority authors explore the triumphs and tribulations of adolescence.
Subject
  • Children of minorities > United States > Literary collections
  • Ethnic groups > United States > Literary collections
  • American literature > Minority authors
  • Children of minorities > United States > Fiction
  • Ethnic groups > United States > Fiction
  • American literature > Minority authors
  • Children of minorities
  • Ethnic groups
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • novels.
  • Novels
  • Literature
  • Fiction
  • Literary collections
  • Short stories.
  • Fiction.
  • Literature.
  • Novels.
  • Romans.
  • Littérature.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p.267-271).
Contents
  • Fitting in. The jacket / Gary Soto -- The neighborhood / Mary Gordon -- The kind of light that shines on Texas / Reginald McKnight -- The body politic / Theodore Weesner -- The wrong lunch line / Nicholasa Mohr -- Jump or dive / Peter Cameron.
  • Family matters. from Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison -- Where is it written? / Adam Schwartz -- Summer water and Shirley / Durango Mendoza -- Judgment day / Arturo Islas -- from The floating world / Cynthia Kadohata.
  • Affairs of the heart. Yes, young daddy / Frank Chin -- Going to school / D'Arcy McNickle -- A spell of Kona weather / Sylvia Watanabe -- What means switch / Gish Jen.
  • Crisis. from This boy's life / Tobias Wolff -- Eyes and teeth / Wanda Coleman -- A bag of oranges / Spiro Athanas -- from How the García girls lost their accents / Julia Alvarez -- from Davita's harp / Chaim Potok -- Marigolds / Eugenia Collier.
ISBN
  • 1565841468
  • 9781565841468
  • 9781565841475
  • 1565841476
LCCN
93046921
OCLC
  • ocm29565382
  • 29565382
  • SCSB-8408348
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library