Lonn Friend
From Guns N' Roses to Nirvana, a Backstage Journey through Rock's Most Debauched Decade For the generation coming of age in the years from 1987 to 1994, RIP magazine was every bit as crucial as Rolling Stone. Life on Planet Rock describes how ... [... more]
Random House |
Tom Brown's School Days
 A LOST CLASSIC: Tom Brown's School Days is one of my favorite movies. I first saw it on local TV many years ago and was captivated by this classic coming of age tale. Tom Brown is sent to a private school in order to save it from closing. The Dean of the [... more]
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Timothy Ferris
Timothy Ferris, a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominee, is the author of nine books, including The Whole Shebang, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, and The Mind's Sky. He is currently professor emeritus at the University of California, ... [... more]
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Patric Kuh
Patric Kuh is the author of The Last Days of Haute Cuisine: The Coming of Age of American Restaurants, which won the 2002 James Beard Award for writing on food. He is the restaurant critic for Los Angeles Magazine, and he lives in Los Angeles. [... more]
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James R. McDonough
A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam.' A Memoir of Command in Combat "Using a lean style and a sense of pacing drawn from the tautest of novels, McDonough has produced a ... [... more]
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Janice Boddy
This is the extraordinary first-person account of a young woman's coming of age in Somalia and her struggles against the obligations and strictures of family and society. By the time she is nine, Aman has undergone a ritual circumcision ceremony; ... [... more]
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Piri Thomas
Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned ... [... more]
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Marc Spitz
Taking us back to late '70s and early '80s Hollywood-pre-crack, pre-AIDS, pre-Reagan- Welcome to the big Reagan '80s, where ketchup is a vegetable and the Cold War looms large and chilly. If like Joe Green you were coming of age during this boom ... [... more]
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Wish You Were Here
"Up yer bum!": Film buffs should rejoice that this outstanding little British gem has finally seen the light of day on DVD. David Leland's 1987 comedy-drama about a headstrong 16-year-old girl's "coming of age" in post WW 2 England [... more]
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Flamingo Kid (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: Matt Dillon broke through as a heartthrob in this surprisingly affecting comedy, from director Garry Marshall. Dillon plays a Brooklyn kid who lands a summer job at a tony Long Island beach club in 1963. His good looks and obsequious [... more]
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A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: The late, much-missed River Phoenix had his first starring role in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, one of the more unusual teen comedies of the 1980s. Jimmy (Phoenix) is a lower-class kid whose parents have gotten him into a [... more]
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Rain
Rain - An element of cinema for all the senses: I've only seen this film once, but once is enough to proclaim this flick as my new all-time favourite! The cinematography and location of the film in scenic New Zealand is absolutely and positively [... more]
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