Re: Bases and Faces
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Thu, 07 Oct 1999 07:54:40 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 10/6/99 11:43:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
pariah1980@yahoo.com writes:
<< . Other
coming of age stories that I've always loved are:
"Stand By Me" aka "The Body" by Stephen King, "A Bronx
Tale" written by Chazz Palminteri, "Trainspotting" by
Irvin Welsh(who by the way admits to being an old fan
of "Catcher in the Rye", etc... etc.. to quote a great
man, "The times they are a changing"
>>
Ach, once again, someone who missed my point. And I am confident this time
it wasn't my fault.
But I will respond here. Of all the above titles, the only one I'm familiar
with is Trainspotting, and that only by way of the movie titled by the same
name. I don't know that the two are related, but if so, Trainspotting the
movie is a good example of a coming of age story that relates to a larger
context. Most of Salinger's stories, such as Catcher (as I said in my first
post), relate to a larger context.
Jim