A Tender Age
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From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence
"A tour de force... One of contemporary American literature's major chroniclers of manhood." --The Atlantic "[A] knockout... Lee reinvents himself with each book." --The Boston Globe "Moving... a classic bildungsroman." --The New York Times Book Review
"He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself." --Jhumpa Lahiri A spellbinding exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants, A Tender Age joins the rich tradition of the American bildungsroman. The natural descendent of characters like Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caufield, Korean-American Jeon-Gi is torn between competing ideas of himself. At home, his working-class parents dote on him. Outside, he is part of a roving pack of kids with dominion over a derelict baseball field, weedy parking lot, and rusty jungle gym. Getting into and out of trouble is all-consuming. But the summer he turns eleven, he becomes embroiled in a staggering series of events reverberating far beyond himself and his family. Devastating in its emotional precision, A Tender Age captures a family and community in striking distance of the American dream, and a young person on the precipice of adult knowledge, looking at his own culpability and looking away--then thinking about it for the rest of his life.
A Tender Age
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"A tour de force... One of contemporary American literature's major chroniclers of manhood." --The Atlantic "[A] knockout... Lee reinvents himself with each book." --The Boston Globe "Moving... a classic bildungsroman." --The New York Times Book Review
"He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself." --Jhumpa Lahiri A spellbinding exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants, A Tender Age joins the rich tradition of the American bildungsroman. The natural descendent of characters like Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caufield, Korean-American Jeon-Gi is torn between competing ideas of himself. At home, his working-class parents dote on him. Outside, he is part of a roving pack of kids with dominion over a derelict baseball field, weedy parking lot, and rusty jungle gym. Getting into and out of trouble is all-consuming. But the summer he turns eleven, he becomes embroiled in a staggering series of events reverberating far beyond himself and his family. Devastating in its emotional precision, A Tender Age captures a family and community in striking distance of the American dream, and a young person on the precipice of adult knowledge, looking at his own culpability and looking away--then thinking about it for the rest of his life.
Book Details
- ISBN
- 9798217048441
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Authors
- Chang-Rae Lee
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Published Date
- August 11, 2026
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 368
- Physical Info
- 1.22 in H x 8.52 in L x 5.78 in W (0.98 lb)
- ISBN
- 9798217349265
- Binding
- Paperback - Large Print
- Authors
- Chang-Rae Lee
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Published Date
- August 11, 2026
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 384
- Physical Info
- 0.9 in H x 9.1 in L x 6 in W (0.9 lb)
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