American Youth

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2 ediciones

American Youth

Editorial: sceptre

ISBN: 978-03-4093-804-1

ISBN sin guiones: 9780340938041

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1

Fecha de publicación: 2008-03-20

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

American Youth

Editorial: random_house_trade_paperbacks

ISBN: 978-08-1297-740-0

ISBN sin guiones: 9780812977400

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 256

Fecha de publicación: 2008-01-08

Idioma: inglés (Estados Unidos)

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American Youth

Phil LaMarche

Primera publicación: 2008-03-20

In this taut and powerful novel, a young teenager is confronted by a terrible moral dilemma following a firearms accident at his home. Coerced by his mother to lie about his role in the incident, he finds he has nonetheless earned the admiration of a sinister group of boys at his school - calling themselves 'American Youth', they subscribe to a twisted notion of traditional, puritanical values. As he gets sucked into their orbit, and entangled with the girlfriend of the group's leader, he struggles to hold on to a sense of right and wrong. Set in a New England town riven by social and ideological tensions - as newcomers encroach on an old rural culture - this is a classic portrait of a boy's rites of passage in an America ill at ease with itself.