First Sightings Contemporary Stories About American Youth

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ISBN: 9780892551873 | 0892551879
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/1/1993

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Twenty stories, arranged by age of the protagonists, from 4 to 18. Contributors include Barbara Kingsolver, John Updike, Ethan Canin, Ernest J. Gaines, Gish Jen, Alice Walker, Michael Chabon, Toni Cade Bambara, Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Roth, and more.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Images of Childhood and Adolescence
Should Wizard Hit Mommy?	p. 1
The Stone Boy	p. 8
The Sky Is Gray	p. 21
Too Much His Father's Son	p. 52
Rose-Johnny	p. 60
The Little Knife	p. 81
The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas	p. 89
The Conversion of the Jews	p. 103
Over the Hill	p. 119
A Girl's Story	p. 130
My Mother's Clothes: The School of Beauty and Shame	p. 142
Wunderkind	p. 161
The Skater	p. 175
What Means Switch	p. 185
Growing	p. 204
Iona Moon	p. 213
Hard to Be Good	p. 228
Boy and Girl	p. 252
A Sudden Trip Home in the Spring	p. 268
Lies	p. 280
Biographical Notes	p. 289
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First Sightings Contemporary Stories About American Youth

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