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A Tender Age
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ISBN13: 9798217048441
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: Aug 11 2026
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.98
Height: 1.22 Width: 5.78 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: Aug 11 2026
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.98
Height: 1.22 Width: 5.78 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
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
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.
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