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Availability:In StockContributor:Chang-Rae LeeTheme:Ethnic Orientation/Asian, Topical/Coming of AgePublish date:8/11/2026Pages:368
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9798217048441UPC:9798217048441Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Asian American & Pacific Islander, Coming of Age, LiterarySize:8.52 x 5.78 x 1.22 inchesWeight:0.445Product ID:SCJ4CNEV7F
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence
"A tour de force... One of contemporary American literature's major chroniclers of manhood." --The Atlantic "[A] knockout... Lee reinvents himself with each book." --The Boston Globe "Moving... a classic bildungsroman." --The New York Times Book Review
"He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself." --Jhumpa Lahiri A spellbinding exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants, A Tender Age joins the rich tradition of the American bildungsroman. The natural descendent of characters like Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caufield, Korean-American Jeon-Gi is torn between competing ideas of himself. At home, his working-class parents dote on him. Outside, he is part of a roving pack of kids with dominion over a derelict baseball field, weedy parking lot, and rusty jungle gym. Getting into and out of trouble is all-consuming. But the summer he turns eleven, he becomes embroiled in a staggering series of events reverberating far beyond himself and his family. Devastating in its emotional precision, A Tender Age captures a family and community in striking distance of the American dream, and a young person on the precipice of adult knowledge, looking at his own culpability and looking away--then thinking about it for the rest of his life.
"A tour de force... One of contemporary American literature's major chroniclers of manhood." --The Atlantic "[A] knockout... Lee reinvents himself with each book." --The Boston Globe "Moving... a classic bildungsroman." --The New York Times Book Review
"He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself." --Jhumpa Lahiri A spellbinding exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants, A Tender Age joins the rich tradition of the American bildungsroman. The natural descendent of characters like Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caufield, Korean-American Jeon-Gi is torn between competing ideas of himself. At home, his working-class parents dote on him. Outside, he is part of a roving pack of kids with dominion over a derelict baseball field, weedy parking lot, and rusty jungle gym. Getting into and out of trouble is all-consuming. But the summer he turns eleven, he becomes embroiled in a staggering series of events reverberating far beyond himself and his family. Devastating in its emotional precision, A Tender Age captures a family and community in striking distance of the American dream, and a young person on the precipice of adult knowledge, looking at his own culpability and looking away--then thinking about it for the rest of his life.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9798217048441UPC:9798217048441Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Asian American & Pacific Islander, Coming of Age, LiterarySize:8.52 x 5.78 x 1.22 inchesWeight:0.445Product ID:SCJ4CNEV7F
Chang-rae Lee is the author of six other novels, including Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, and The Surrendered, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A 2021 winner of the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Stanford University.
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