Subject: Re: novels about high school
From: Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2000 - 21:32:07 EST
At 9:16 PM -0500 on 1/11/2000, you wrote:
> I haven't read any novels about high school that take place in the 90's, but
> am interested in reading a book of this kind. I did, however, enjoy Michael
> Chabon's The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) which is a coming of age novel
> for a male character just after he finished college. Anyone else read any
> Chabon?
Wonder Boys, which was terribly depressing, though good in its way.
I read it back-to-back with Martin Amis's The Information, which was
similar in nature and in the mood it left in me.
Lorrie Moore's Who Will Mind the Frog Hospital? is a kind of
coming-of-age novel of two teenage girls in the 1960s. None of it
takes place in a high school, as I recall, but it is utterly
brilliant.
Elizabeth McCracken's The Giant's House is similarly
not-quite-in-high-school but shares a lot with that genre.
Then there's Frank McCourt's 'Tis, which, while not a novel, has
plenty of high school in it....
I guess The Publisher (there's only one left, correct? didn't they
all merge?) decided that nobody reads high-school books.
--tim
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