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Lädt ... Crash Club (1958)von Henry Gregor Felsen
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I can't believe no one has yet to review this wonderful teen-age book by Henry Gregor Felsen. I think it's a classic. I first read it about 12 or 13, and I still love it. Although it's obviously written more for boys, I think girls might enjoy it as well. Michael 'Mike' Revere is a senior in high school, in the innocent 1950s, when boys were concerned more with cars and sports, girls and fitting in, instead of being gang-bangers and huffing paint. Mike is the leader of his group, and he feels his spot challenged when rich boy David Galt comes to town. Mike feels he has to hold on to his top spot among his car-crazy friends, and trying to leads to tragedy. This isn't a deep book, like Catcher in the Rye (another favorite of mine), but it's still fun to read and I think anyone can remember what it was like wanting to be popular and fit in during your teenage years. The characters are all interesting and this is a well-written, interesting book about teenagers and their lives. I highly recommend it, and any other book my Mr. Felsen. He was a great writer in this genre. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"In the car-crazed youth culture of the 1950s and early 1960s, no figure was more important than the writer Henry Gregor Felsen. In my circle of semi-Beatnik Southern California street racers, for instance, his novels were were read and re-read until the paper covers literally disintegrated. He was one of the few adult writers (Jack Kerouac was the obvious other) who understood the full desperation and elation of our punched-to-the-metal generation. At the same time, this tough ex-Marine undoubtedly saved thousands of lives with his forensically sobering descriptions of the Friday night carnage on the crossroads of small Midwest towns. In American cultural history, Felsen was to the 1950s as L. Frank Baum (Wizard of Oz) was to the 1900s." Mike Davis Professor Creative Writing U.C. Riverside So far, Raccoon Forks had been a lucky school. Its fads had been noisy, out-landish, expensive, silly; its leaders noble, flighty, and irritating. But it had been spared the destructive, damaging crazes that had seized students in other high schools. Indeed, the addiction to drag-racing gaudy cars was almost something to be thankful for. And yet, the current fad was doomed from the day "Outlaw" Galt transferred to Raccoon Forks. He not only usurped Mike Revere's position as the "best boy with the best car," and also the girl who went with it, but set off a struggle for prestige and leadership that was fought with cars. Racing gave way to recklessness and "heroes" were measured by the depth of their road wounds. Where would the new fad end? That question troubled the principal of Raccoon Forks High. But how to regain his leadership and the affections of his girl was all that mattered to Mike Revere. He'd find a way. . . With Crash Club, Henry Gregor Felsen proves again, as he did with "Hot Rod" and "Street Rod," that he not only understands teen agers and their problems but can also write a story guaranteed to keep their eyes glued to it from start to finish. Felsen's children, Dan Felsen and Holly Felsen Welch, have republished these favorites for the fans who loved them as teens and for new generations, as well." Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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