TRIBE APART, A A JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF AMERICAN ADOLESCENCE

C1998 GOOD HARDCOVER IN BRIGHT DUST JACKET FAWCETT [HERSCH, PATRICIA] LIGHT WEAR/SOILING TO EDGES A JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF AMERICAN ADOLESCENCE

From Publisher:

In the school of Kozol and Kotlowitz, an important, eye-opening account of the secret lives of today's teens, from a journalist who went right to the source.

For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic, hostile culture -- the world of "A Tribe Apart".

As a silent, attentive panner, she followed eight teenagers in the typically American town of Reston, Virginia, listening to their stories, observing their rituals, watching them fulfill their dreams and enact their tragedies.

Hersch set out with the goal of seeing adolescents as they see themselves, without prejudice or stereotype. What she discovered was a culture that adults neither see nor imagine -- one of unequaled freedom and baffling complexity, a culture with rules but no structure, values but no clear morality, codes but no consistency. It is a culture, after all, where kids are left on their own to make their own choices and determine their own fates.

"A Tribe Apart" is a work of luminous truth and gripping revelation.

Product Info

ISBN: 0449907678

ISBN-13: 9780449907672

Publisher: FAWCETT

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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