num_pages: 272
description: An eye-opening and dramatic expose of white teen life in America's Northeastern suburbs. Gaines' account offers sympathetic portraits of these teenagers, an incisive analysis of their interest in heavy-metal music and Satanism, and a powerful indictment of the programs designed to help "troubled" teens.
language: English
title: Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead End Kids
titlecomplete: Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead End Kids
genres: Sociology, Education, Anthropology, Nonfiction, History, Music
ratings_count: 217
publisher: Perennial