The Red Pony Paperback - 1994
by John Steinbeck; Introduction by John Seelye
Summary
Written at a time of profound anxiety caused by the illness of his mother, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck draws on his memories of childhood in these stories about a boy who embodies both the rebellious spirit and the contradictory desire for acceptance of early adolescence. Unlike most coming-of-age stories, the cycle does not end with a hero matured” by circumstances. As John Seelye writes in his introduction, reversing common interpretations, The Red Pony is imbued with a sense of loss. Jody’s encounters with birth and death express a common theme in Steinbeck’s fiction: They are parts of the ongoing process of life, resolving” nothing. The Red Pony was central not only to Steinbeck’s emergence as a major American novelist but to the shaping of a distinctly mid twentieth-century genre, opening up a new range of possibilities about the fictional presence of a child’s world.
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- Title The Red Pony
- Author John Steinbeck; Introduction by John Seelye
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 128
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1994-10-01
- ISBN 9780140187397 / 0140187391
- Weight 0.24 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 5.09 x 0.38 in (19.71 x 12.93 x 0.97 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 810
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Themes
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Western stories, Bildungsromane
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94008791
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- People Weekly, 10/25/2010, Page 47
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