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A Tender Age - Large Print by Chang-Rae Lee (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence.
- About the Author: Chang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, as well as My Year Abroad, On Such a Full Sea, A Gesture Life, Aloft, and The Surrendered, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
- 589 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Asian American
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Guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence. 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.About the Author
Chang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, as well as My Year Abroad, On Such a Full Sea, A Gesture Life, Aloft, and The Surrendered, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A 2021 winner of the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Stanford University.Dimensions (Overall): 9.25 Inches (H) x 6.13 Inches (W) x 1.19 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.31 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 589
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Asian American
Publisher: Random House Large Print Publishing
Format: Paperback
Author: Chang-Rae Lee
Language: English
Street Date: August 11, 2026
TCIN: 1007453545
UPC: 9798217349265
Item Number (DPCI): 247-52-7804
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 1.19 inches length x 6.13 inches width x 9.25 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 1.307 pounds
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