Word: teenhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scotty is all too shortly a puppy in love. As he did in his first book, Lost Slimmer, Novelist Davis, 32, beautifully captures the long, grave dialogues on the borders of teenhood, the spasms of physical wildness, the sudden paroxysms of laughter. His adolescents are as real as any living writer's, unless the writer is J. D. Salinger. And there is a Salinger touch in the tragedy that follows. Scotty begins talking of marriage in 20 or 30 years, when "the entire social structure will be changed," and a sobered Katie realizes that she does not want...
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