The Runaway Generation

Verlag: David McKay Company, Inc, New York, 1970

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x, 309, [1] pages. Appendix. DJ has wear, soiling, tears and chips. Edge soiling. From the DJ: a study in depth of our alienated children. Bibi Wein has written, co-authored or contributed to a dozen books. Her short fiction, features and essays have appeared in numerous national magazines and literary journals, including Mademoiselle, OMNI, Kalliope, Other Voices, and American Letters & Commentary. She works as an editorial consultant, feature writer, and teacher of creative writing. The Way Home is her first book of creative nonfiction. Winner of the 2003 Tupelo Press Literary Fiction/Non-Fiction Prize. From an article in The New York Times: This book is based on first hand research (from the acid heads of Hashbury to the malcontents of exurbia), on intensive interviews with both the author's subjects and their mentors. A 27 year old novelist. Bibi Wein divides her teenagers into three groups: the dopers, the street dwellers, and the political radicals. What ties them together, inevitably, is their sense of being out of place and out of tune. They are strangers everywhere. One typical "doper" in Pennsylvania describes his decision to drop out this way: "Everyone thought I left Kentwood because I was too smart for the system. Actually, I left out of fear. Fear of the social order. Just a general feeling of ‘I don't fit in.' " A "political" girl in California explained the lure of drugs: "Depression. A feeling like there's no place for me. There's always unconsciousness to escape to. . . ." Pampered yet ignored by their parents, bored to tears in school, lavished with material goods—Miss Wein tells us that the kids of her title have had few opportunities to test themselves, to prove their worth. Her cast of characters (too many of them stock figures) are hardly paragons. Sometimes they come across as thoughtless and self indulgent, fleeing to Nirvanas of peace and love that never were. They seldom make the same effort to understand their parents that they demand their parents make to understand them. For the most part, however, she finds the "runaway generation" intelligent, vibrant—and unwilling to swallow the goals and standards handed down to them. "It is indeed a terrified society," she concludes, "that must go to the lengths we do to keep youth and its ideas and energies so suppressed. . . . We are fortunate that more and more of our adolescents are rising above our fears and falsehoods—and claiming their right to a voice in their own lives and the world we all live in.". …

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Bibliografische Details

Titel
The Runaway Generation
Autor
Wein, Bibi
Verlag
David McKay Company, Inc, New York
Erscheinungsjahr
1970
Zustand
Good
Schutzumschlag
Good
Einband
Hardcover
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Presumed First Edition, First printing.

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