Flower Children - Hardcover

Swann, Maxine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594489459 ISBN 13: 9781594489457

Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2007

Synopsis

A full-length work inspired by the multiple award-winning short story follows the experiences of four siblings as they grow up in rural Pennsylvania under the guidance of devoutly hippie parents who believe in life without limits, a situation that involves innocence-compromising freedoms.

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Review:

aWriting in lucid, crystalline prose...[Swann] captures the incongruities of the 1970s counterculture as seen from the point of view of a young child, the shifting attitudes the narrator and her three siblings take toward the adult world as they slip-slide from childhood into adolescence, and the incalculable ways in which the passage of time colorizes the past.a
a"The New York Times"

?Writing in lucid, crystalline prose...[Swann] captures the incongruities of the 1970s counterculture as seen from the point of view of a young child, the shifting attitudes the narrator and her three siblings take toward the adult world as they slip-slide from childhood into adolescence, and the incalculable ways in which the passage of time colorizes the past.?
?"The New York Times"

About the Author:

Maxine Swann has been awarded Ploughshares' Cohen Award for best fiction of the year, an O. Henry Award, and a Pushcart Prize. The author of the novel Serious Girls, Swann is a translator and screenwriter in Buenos Aires.

About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1594489459
• ISBN 13: 9781594489457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 211