{"id":22625,"date":"2015-09-16T10:12:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T17:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=22625"},"modified":"2015-09-16T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T17:12:11","slug":"coming-of-age-novels-three-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/16\/coming-of-age-novels-three-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming-of-age novels: three questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pat sent me a list of 11 classic coming-of-age novels<\/a>. I’ve read 7 of the 11 (only saw the movie of another); Pat can account for 7-1\/2. <\/p>\n

The ones I’m familiar with are great books everybody will probably encounter at some time, and some may (at the right moment) even be life-changing, as the article claims. But I also noticed the whole list is from another age. <\/p>\n

Where’s The Giver<\/i><\/a>? And The Chocolate War<\/i><\/a>? And The Hunger Games<\/i> trilogy<\/a>? Not to mention quite a few others, both modern and classic.<\/p>\n

For that matter, what constitutes a coming-of-age novel? I never thought of Catch-22<\/i> (on the original list) in that context even though I first read it at 14. OTOH, I could make a serious case that The Lord of the Rings<\/i> trilogy<\/a> is the greatest coming-of-age fiction of all time, despite the protagonist being a 50-year-old hobbit.<\/p>\n

So how about you?<\/p>\n

* What makes a great coming-of-age novel?<\/p>\n

* How many on the original list of 11 have you read?<\/p>\n

* And what’s missing from that list and why should it be on there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pat sent me a list of 11 classic coming-of-age novels. I’ve read 7 of the 11 (only saw the movie of another); Pat can account for 7-1\/2. The ones I’m familiar with are great books everybody will probably encounter at some time, and some may (at the right moment) even be life-changing, as the article claims. But I also noticed the whole list is from another age. Where’s The Giver? And The Chocolate War? And The Hunger Games trilogy? Not to mention quite a few others, both modern and classic. For that matter, what constitutes a coming-of-age novel? I never…<\/p>\n

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