A Tender Age - CD
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Chang-Rae Lee, Keong SimGenre:Fiction/GeneralTheme:Ethnic Orientation/Asian, Topical/Coming of AgePublish date:8/25/2026Release date:8/25/2026
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin AudiobooksISBN-13:9798217348862UPC:9798217348862Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Asian American & Pacific Islander, Coming of Age, LiteraryProduct ID:SCNR0KVCMH
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:Penguin AudiobooksISBN-13:9798217348862UPC:9798217348862Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Asian American & Pacific Islander, Coming of Age, LiteraryProduct ID:SCNR0KVCMH
Lee, Chang-Rae: -
Chang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker, a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner for first fiction, A Gesture Life, and Aloft. Selected by the New Yorker as one of the twenty best writers under forty, he teaches writing at Princeton.
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