Chris Crutcher

King of the Mild Frontier (eBook, ePUB)

An Ill-Advised Autobiography

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

ALA Best
Fiction for Young Adults * New York
Public Library Books for the Teen Age

A riveting,
scorchingand hilariousautobiography by the award-winning author of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes and Deadline.
From trying to impress a member of the girls'
softball team (with disastrous dental results) to enduring the humiliation of
his high school athletic club initiation (olives and oysters play unforgettable
roles), Chris Crutcher's memoir of the tricky road to adulthood is candid,
disarming, laugh-out-loud funny, relevant, and never less than riveting.
He
vividly describes a temper that was always waiting to trip him up even as it
sustained him through some of the most memorable mishaps any child has
survived. And how did this guy (he lifted his brother's homework through the
entire tenth grade) ever become a writer, not to mention the author of fourteen
critically acclaimed books for young people?

The frontier may be mild, but the book is not.
Fans of Tara Westover's Educated,
Jack Gantos's Hole in My Life, and
Walter Dean Myers's Bad Boy will
laugh, will cry, and will remember.

Funny, bittersweet and brutally honest. Readers
will clasp this hard-to-put-down book to their hearts even as they laugh
sympathetically.Publishers Weekly
(starred review)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Altersempfehlung: ab 14 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780061968440
• Artikelnr.: 38003086

Autorenporträt

Chris Crutcher has written nine critically acclaimed novels, an autobiography, and two collections of short stories. Drawing on his experience as a family therapist and child protection specialist, Crutcher writes honestly about real issues facing teenagers today: making it through school, competing in sports, handling rejection and failure, and dealing with parents. He has won three lifetime achievement awards for the body of his work: the Margaret A. Edwards Award, the ALAN Award, and the NCTE National Intellectual Freedom Award. Chris Crutcher lives in Spokane, Washington.