coming-of-age

• “HPFacebookVoteV2. init (312192, 'Movie review: An Education', 'As coming-of-age films go, An Education is one of the better ones - and one of the few that doesn\'t equate \ "coming-of-age\" with \ "horny teen boy, \" past or present.”

  Marshall Fine: Movie review: An Education

• “Beth Emet also runs a religious school for older children and youth, educating them in Hebrew and preparing them for the coming-of-age ceremony called Bar/Bat Mitzvah, as well as a youth group whose main focus is social.”

  Simon & Schuster: American Grace

• “Centered on a flighty young braggart named Percy, who learns honor and steadfastness while rescuing his mom from a villain, battling the monster Medusa and resisting the corruption of a war-ravaged culture, the musical is a coming-of-age tale that speaks of integrity, redemption and social healing.”

  The Washington Post: Theater review: 'Perseus Bayou' at Imagination Stage

• “It's not because this coming-of-age memoir isn't well-written (it is) or lacks inspiration (Barcott kicks us in the pants) or, as it moves from middle-class Rhode Island to the shantytowns of Kenya and into the trenches of Iraq, that it isn't timely, relevant, and critically important (yes, yes and oh boy, yes).”

  The Huffington Post: Greg Barrett: Marine's Memoir Commands Our Attention -- And Personal Investment

• “In town to promote their new film "Lymelife" -- a coming-of-age story set in 1970's Long Island -- stars Jill Hennessy and Emma Roberts were happy to partake in our burgeoning MTV News Sundance Photo Booth series.”

  Sundance Photo Booth: Jill Hennessy And Emma Roberts » MTV Movies Blog

• “His 1991 "A Brighter Summer Day," which opens Friday for a landmark American theatrical run, is a richly textured coming-of-age epic set in 1960s Taiwan, based on the real-life conflicts between rival gangs of native Taiwanese youths from families that had resettled from the Chinese mainland in 1949.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Dreams and Screams

• “I'm all for bringing heart and soul to coming-of-age comedy, and that includes the inevitable sad milestone, but the tone of this episode is all over the place.”

  Matt's TV Week in Review

• “White Is For Witching is a gothic coming-of-age story that deals with life – and death – in a hauntingly beautiful way.”

  2009 May « One Size Fits One

• “It has a sad half-million-year-old polymorphous made person named Siob trying to make societies more resilient, and coming-of-age story of a teenager with three bodies on a planet with very different notions of gender, economics, and politics than ours, in the midst of a revolutionary social crisis; so its like two contemporaneous bildungsroman on very different time scales.”

  INTERVIEW: Benjamin Rosenbaum

• “The primary stumbling block for me in reading YA fiction is the overwhelming dominance of the coming-of-age theme.”

  REVIEW: Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman

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