| Cress Delahanty Contributor(s): West, Jessamyn (Author) |
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ISBN: 1558615164 ISBN-13: 9781558615168 Publisher: Feminist Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2006 Annotation: Brimming "with humor and charm and youthful animal spiritsThere is much true wisdom in "Cress Delahanty,"" ("The New York Times") West writes "gracefully, occasionally poetically, in a voice both innocent and brave." ("The Washington Post") Set in rural California in the 1940s, this novel wittily portrays an adolescent girl navigating pivotal moments of growing up between 12 and 16. West is equally insightful about the eternal problems of parenthood and how raising children transforms a marriage. Jessamyn West (1902-1984) was the author of forty books and often contributed to magazines like "The New Yorker," |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Contemporary Classics by Women |
| Physical Information: 1.04" H x 6.74" W x 8.36" (0.98 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cress Delahanty remains one of the most intrepid and beloved teenagers in all American literature. Amid the clotted oil fields and pungent orange groves of rural 1940s California, the young woman explores her family's citrus ranch, worries about boys, attempts to negotiate the high school social ladder, and suffers embarrassments, big and small, in a tenacious search for her own identity. |