The Resource Big kids, Michael DeForge
Big kids, Michael DeForge
- Summary
- The debut graphic novel from a dazzling newcomer with a singular, idiosyncratic style. Big Kids is simultaneously Michael DeForge's most straightforward narrative and his most complex work to date. It follows a troubled teenage boy through the transformative years of high school as he redefines his friends, his interests, and his life path. When the boy's uncle, a police officer, gets kicked out of the family's basement apartment and transferred to the countryside, April moves in. She's college student, mysterious and cool, and she quickly takes a shine to the boy. The boy's own interests quickly fade away: he stops engaging in casual sex, taking drugs, and testing the limits of socially acceptable (and legal) behavior. Instead, he hangs out with April and her friends, a bunch of highly evolved big kids who spend their days at the campus swimming pool. And slowly, the boy begins to change, too. Eerie and perfectly paced, DeForge's Big Kids muses on the complicated, and often contradictory, feelings people struggle with during adolescence, the choices we make to fit in, and the ways we survive times of change. Like Ant Colony and First Year Healthy, Big Kids is a testimony to the harshness and beauty of being alive
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 volume (unpaged)
- Isbn
- 9781770462243
- Label
- Big kids
- Title
- Big kids
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael DeForge
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The debut graphic novel from a dazzling newcomer with a singular, idiosyncratic style. Big Kids is simultaneously Michael DeForge's most straightforward narrative and his most complex work to date. It follows a troubled teenage boy through the transformative years of high school as he redefines his friends, his interests, and his life path. When the boy's uncle, a police officer, gets kicked out of the family's basement apartment and transferred to the countryside, April moves in. She's college student, mysterious and cool, and she quickly takes a shine to the boy. The boy's own interests quickly fade away: he stops engaging in casual sex, taking drugs, and testing the limits of socially acceptable (and legal) behavior. Instead, he hangs out with April and her friends, a bunch of highly evolved big kids who spend their days at the campus swimming pool. And slowly, the boy begins to change, too. Eerie and perfectly paced, DeForge's Big Kids muses on the complicated, and often contradictory, feelings people struggle with during adolescence, the choices we make to fit in, and the ways we survive times of change. Like Ant Colony and First Year Healthy, Big Kids is a testimony to the harshness and beauty of being alive
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- Title
- Big kids
- Summary
- "Big Kids is simultaneously Michael DeForge's most straightforward narrative and his most complex work to date. It follows a troubled teenage boy through the transformative years of high school as he redefines his friends, his interests, and his life path. When the boy's uncle, a police officer, gets kicked out of the family's basement apartment and transferred to the countryside, April moves in. She's a college student, mysterious and cool, and she quickly takes a shine to the boy. The boy's own interests quickly fade away: he stops engaging in casual sex, taking drugs, and testing the limits of socially acceptable (and legal) behavior. Instead, he hangs out with April and her friends, a bunch of highly evolved big kids who spend their days at the campus swimming pool. And slowly, the boy begins to change, too."--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
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- Comics and Graphic novels
- Interpersonal relations
- College students
- Alternative comics
- Teenage boys -- Relations with older women
- Gay teenagers
- Teenage boy/boy relations
- Bullying and bullies
- Boarders
- Growing up
- Canadian fiction
- Graphic novels
- Coming-of-age stories
- Self-discovery
- Transformations, Personal
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10490215
- Cataloging source
- NLC
- Dewey number
- 741.5/971
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- comics graphic novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Target audience
- adult
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/titleStatement
- Michael DeForge
- Label
- Big kids, Michael DeForge
- Related Authorities
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- Interpersonal relations
- Canadian fiction
- Fiction
- Self-discovery
- Bildungsromans
- College students
- High schools
- Bullying and bullies
- Comics and Graphic novels
- Women college students
- Graphic novels
- Boarders
- Teenage boy/boy relations
- Gay teenagers
- Teenagers
- Growing up
- Conduct of life
- Alternative comics
- Relations with older women
- Friendship
- Transformations, Personal
- Teenage boys
- Coming-of-age stories
- Related Subjects
-
- Gay teenagers -- Fiction
- Graphic novels
- Comics and Graphic novels
- Interpersonal relations
- College students
- Alternative comics
- Teenage boys -- Relations with older women
- Gay teenagers
- Bildungsromans
- Teenage boy/boy relations
- Bullying and bullies
- Boarders
- Growing up
- High schools -- Fiction
- Canadian fiction
- Coming-of-age stories
- Women college students -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Conduct of life -- Fiction
- Self-discovery
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Transformations, Personal
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- http://library.link/vocab/cover_art
- https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&client=dougp&isbn=9781770462243&upc=&oclc=ocn908628858/LC.JPG
- Dimensions
- 16 cm.
- http://library.link/vocab/discovery_link
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- Extent
- 1 volume (unpaged)
- Isbn
- 9781770462243
- Isbn Type
- (bound)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Note
- cat24
- Other physical details
- color illustrations
- System control number
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- ocn908628858
- (OCoLC)908628858
- 1322175
Subject
- Bildungsromans
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Gay teenagers -- Fiction
- Graphic novels
- High schools -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Conduct of life -- Fiction
- Women college students -- Fiction
- Alternative comics
- Boarders
- Bullying and bullies
- Canadian fiction
- College students
- Comics and Graphic novels
- Coming-of-age stories
- Gay teenagers
- Graphic novels
- Growing up
- Interpersonal relations
- Self-discovery
- Teenage boy/boy relations
- Teenage boys -- Relations with older women
- Transformations, Personal
Genre
- Bildungsromans
- Fiction
- Graphic novels
- Alternative comics
- Canadian fiction
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Comics and Graphic novels
- Coming-of-age stories
- Graphic novels
Appeal Terms
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