Z. Kolbuszewska on Kenneth Millard’s Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction.

Kenneth Millard, Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. pp. 208Kenneth Millard’s Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction is a valuable contribution to the study of contemporary American literature. The critic seeks to “explain the importance of the coming-of-age genre within the broader canon of American literature” (14). His book shows that the late-twentieth-century novels that address the vicissitudes of adolescence in contempora...