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9780805782196

Presenting Cynthia Voigt

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  • ISBN13:

    9780805782196

  • ISBN10:

    0805782192

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1995-02-01
  • Publisher: Twayne Pub
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Summary

A biographical sketch of this popular author, followed by literary criticism in thematic chapters of 20 of Voigt's young adult novels.

Author Biography

Suzanne Elizabeth Reid is instructor of English at Virginia Highland Community College in Abingdon, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Chronology
Cynthia Voigt: Adventurer Beneath the Surfacep. 1
Looking Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg: Defining the Self (The Callender Papers, Tell Me If the Lovers Are Losers)p. 17
Reaching Out, Holding On, and Letting Go: Self-Development in Cynthia Voigt's Tillerman Series (Homecoming, Dicey's Song, A Solitary Blue, The Runner, Come a Stranger, Sons from Afar, Seventeen Against the Dealer)p. 31
Learning to Live: Ways of Knowing (Izzy, Willy-Nilly, Building Blocks, Tree by Leaf, The Vandemark Mummy)p. 51
Heroic Ventures (Jackaroo, On Fortune's Wheel, The Wings of a Falcon)p. 62
Daring to Live Authentically (David and Jonathan, Glass Mountain, Orfe, When She Hollers)p. 80
Voigt's Essential Ideas: A Thematic Overviewp. 103
Notes and Referencesp. 119
Selected Bibliographyp. 124
Indexp. 131
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