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This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the coming-of-age novel. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood.

Bildungsroman [American ] --- History and criticism --- American fiction --- 20th century --- Banks, Russell --- Udall, Brady --- Wolff, Geoffrey --- Jen, Gish --- Eugenides, Jeffrey --- Moody, Rick --- Bradfield, Scott --- Richard, Mark --- Robinson, Marilynne --- Humphreys, Josephine --- Allison, Dorothy --- Wurtzel, Elizabeth --- Bildungsromans, American --- History and criticism. --- American literature --- 21st century --- DeLillo, Don --- Auster, Paul --- Ellis, Bret Easton --- Smiley, Jane --- Shields, Carol --- Roth, Philip --- Powers, Richard --- Frazier, Charles --- McCarthy, Cormac