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Subtitle: The Next Generation of American Writers--Teenage Girls--On What Fires Up TheirLives Today
Publisher: Hudson Street Press
Published: November 8, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781594630408
Subjects: Special Subjects In Literature; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Essays; Literary Collections / Essays; 21st century; American Essays; Teenagers' writings, American
Description: A vivid portrait of what it means to be a teenage girl in America today. Teenage girls today live their life in words--in text and instant messages, on blogs and social network pages. It's how they conduct their friendships and present themselves to the world, but they are also creating a formidable body of personal written work. This generation's unprecedented comfort level with the written word has led to a fearless new American literature. These collected essays offer a key to understanding one of the most mislabeled and underestimated members of society. Here, nearly sixty teenage girls from across the country, representing a diverse spectrum of socioeconomic, political, racial, and religious backgrounds, create a rich portrait of life as a teen girl in America today, revealing the complicated inner lives, humor, hopes, struggles, thrills, and obsessions of this generation.--From publisher description.