Point of departure : nineteen stories of youth and discovery
Title:
Point of departure : nineteen stories of youth and discovery
Author:
Gold, Robert S., 1924-
Edition:
New Dell Laurel-Leaf edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, 2005.
©1967
Physical Description:
190 pages ; 18 cm.
Summary:
Out of the diversity of their experience, eighteen authors have written sensitive and honest stories of adolescence, articulating the world teenagers know and the future they anticipate.
General Note:
Contains biographical and editorial notes.
Language:
English
Contents:
Bike / Alan Sillitoe -- Split cherry tree / Jesse Stuart -- White circle / John Bell Clayton -- Wishing well / Phillip Bonosky -- Finish of Patsy Barnes / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Good long sidewalk / William Melvin Kelley -- Prelude / Albert Halper -- A & P / John Updike -- Phone call / Berton Rouec*he -- First death of her life / Elizabeth Taylor -- Company of laughing faces / Nadine Gordimer -- Eclipse / Elizabeth Enright -- Seventeen / William Saroyan -- Summer's reading / Bernard Malamud -- Sucker / Carson McCullers -- Snowfall in childhood / Ben Hecht -- Sorcerer's eye / Howard Nemerov -- Tomorrow and tomorrow and so forth / John Updike -- Ah, the university / John Collier.
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ISBN:
9780440969839
Format :
Book
