Bildungsromane
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The Buddha of Suburbia
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel
“There was one copy going round our school like contraband. I read it in one sitting … I’d never read a book about anyone remotely like me before.”- Author: Kureishi, Hanif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 1991
- ISBN10: 014013168X
- Language: English
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Rose Mellie Rose
$12.95 Add to cartThis is the story of Mellie, who as a baby is found in a grotto, then raised in a souvenir shop by Rose. At age twelve Mellie goes to the dying town of Oç©°, where she enters premature adulthood and a
- Series: European Women Writers
- Author: Redonnet, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 123
- Publish Date: September 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0803289529
- Language: English
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Geronimo Rex
$16.00 Add to cartGeronimo Rex, Barry Hannah’s brilliant first novel, which was nominated for the National Book Award, is full of the rare verve and flawless turns of phrase that have defined his status as an American … [more below]
- Author: Hannah, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0802135692
- Language: English
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Run with the Horsemen
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Whisper of the River and Epiphany.
In this coming-of-age story, Porter Osbourne Jr. is a precocious, sensitive, and rambunctious boy trying to make it through adolescence during- Author: Sams, Ferrol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 03 1984
- ISBN10: 0140072748
- Language: English
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The Last Gentleman
$28.99 Add to cartWill Barrett is a 25-year-old wanderer from the South living in New York City, detached from his roots and with no plans for the future, until the purchase of a telescope sets off a romance and change
- Author: Percy, Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 04 1999
- ISBN10: 0312243081
- Language: English
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David Copperfield
$7.99 Add to cartOf all Dickens’s novels, David Copperfield most fervently embraces the comic delights, the tender warmth, the tragic horrors of childhood. It is our classic tale of growing up, an enchanting story of … [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: September 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0553211897
- Language: English
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Where the Heart is
$18.99 Add to cartTalk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah… [more below]
- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Letts, Billie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0446672211
- Language: English
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BendÃceme, Ultima
$8.99 Read moreThe author of Alburquerque presents the story of young Antonio Marez, who has been raised under the protective wing of a mystic and herbal healer and seeks out his family heritage while learning the s
- Author: Anaya, Rudolfo
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01, 1994
- ISBN10: 0446601772
- Language: Spanish
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Abeng
$22.00 Add to cartA lyrical coming-of-age story and an essential retelling of the colonial history of Jamaica.
Originally published in 1984, this critically acclaimed novel is the story of Clare Savage, a light-skinne- Author: Cliff, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0452274834
- Language: English
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
$17.00 Add to cartA novel from “one of the outstanding writers of the world” (The New York Times) that explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence. – “A major work of art.” —Time
Thi… [more below]- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mishima, Yukio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 31 1994
- ISBN10: 0679750150
- Language: English
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Jane Eyre
$6.99 Add to cartIntroduction by Joyce Carol Oates – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Bront ‘s Jan- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Bront?, Charlotte
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 01 1983
- ISBN10: 553211404
- Language: English
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I Am One of You Forever
$29.95 Add to cartWonderfully funny and also deeply touching, I Am One of You Forever is the story of a young boy’s coming of age. Set in the hills and hollows of western North Carolina in the years around World War II
- Author: Chappell, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 01, 1987
- ISBN10: 0807114103
- Language: English
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The Red Pony
$14.00 Add to cartA Penguin Classic
Written at a time of profound anxiety caused by the illness of his mother, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck draws on his memories of childhood in these stories about a boy who embod- Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01, 1994
- ISBN10: 0140187391
- Language: English
