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Norma Klein (1938–1989)

Autor(a) de Sunshine

67+ Works 1,463 Membros 17 Críticas 2 Favorited

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Séries

Obras por Norma Klein

Sunshine (1974) 144 exemplares
Mom the Wolf Man and Me (1972) 142 exemplares
It's O.K. If You Don't Love Me (1981) 69 exemplares
Domestic Arrangements (1981) 56 exemplares
No More Saturday Nights (1989) 52 exemplares
Love is One of the Choices (1978) 52 exemplares
Confessions of an Only Child (1974) 48 exemplares
Girls Can Be Anything (1973) 45 exemplares
Just Friends (1990) 40 exemplares
It's Not What You Expect (1973) 40 exemplares
Family Secrets (1985) 40 exemplares
Tomboy (1978) 37 exemplares
Breaking Up (1980) 36 exemplares
Taking Sides (1974) 35 exemplares
Beginner's Love (1983) 33 exemplares
My Life as a Body (1987) 33 exemplares
Give Me One Good Reason (1973) 29 exemplares
Angel Face (1984) 29 exemplares
What It's All About (1975) 27 exemplares
The Queen of the What Ifs (1982) 26 exemplares
Robbie and the Leap Year Blues (1981) 25 exemplares
Older Men (1987) 24 exemplares
Going Backwards (1986) 24 exemplares
The Sunshine Years (1975) 20 exemplares
Now That I Know (1988) 20 exemplares
The World As It Is (1989) 20 exemplares
That's My Baby (1988) 18 exemplares
Naomi in the Middle (1974) 16 exemplares
A Honey of a Chimp (1980) 16 exemplares
Wives and Other Women (1982) 16 exemplares
Baryshnikov's Nutcracker (1983) 14 exemplares
Coming to Life (1974) 14 exemplares
Snapshots (1986) 13 exemplares
Lovers (1984) 13 exemplares
Give and Take (1985) 13 exemplares
A Surprise Party for Dinosaur (1977) 13 exemplares
Swap (1984) 12 exemplares
Bizou (1983) 12 exemplares
Hiding (1977) 12 exemplares
The Cheerleader (1985) 12 exemplares
Girls Turn Wives (1976) 11 exemplares
Sunshine Christmas (1977) 11 exemplares
Love and Other Euphemisms (1975) 11 exemplares
American Dreams (1987) 9 exemplares
Blue Trees Red Sky (1975) 9 exemplares
If I Had My Way (1974) 9 exemplares
Learning How to Fall (1989) 8 exemplares
A train for Jane (1974) 6 exemplares
Visiting Pamela (1979) — Autor — 6 exemplares
SUNSHINE (1974) 5 exemplares
French Postcards (1979) 4 exemplares
Robbie and the Leap Year Blues (1983) 3 exemplares
The swap (1983) 3 exemplares
Bytet (1985) 2 exemplares
Un marido: ¿para qué? (1979) 2 exemplares
Daddys Darling. (1995) 2 exemplares
Sole (1990) 2 exemplares
Scelte d'amore (1986) 1 exemplar
Scelte d'amore 1 exemplar
Pratfalls 1 exemplar
Mom the Wolfman and (1977) 1 exemplar
Daddys Darling 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers (1999) — Contribuidor — 316 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1969 (1969) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Prize Stories 1963: The O. Henry Awards (1963) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1938-05-13
Data de falecimento
1989-04-25
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
New York, New York, USA
Local de falecimento
New York, New York, USA
Locais de residência
New York, New York, USA
Educação
Barnard College (B.A., Russian, 1960)
Columbia University (M.A. ∙ Slavic Languages ∙ 1963)
Ocupações
children's book author

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Norma Klein, the daughter of a psychoanalyst, attended progressive schools before studying at Barnard College, Cornell, and Columbia. She originally wanted to become an artist, but said she decided to become a writer when she was unable to find books written about the kinds of people she knew, or who held her interest. Along with Judy Blume, she became one of the early pioneers of young adult literature in America with her realistic novels and short stories. She attributed her portrayal of alternative lifestyles, such as the single-parent family in Mom, the Wolf Man and Me (1972) or the lesbian mother and her partner in Breaking Up (1980), to her liberal upbringing in New York City. Her works dealt openly with other controversial issues as well, such as racism, divorce, abortion, and death, which may explain why Publisher's Weekly listed her as one of the most frequently censored authors in America. She died after a short illness. Her papers are housed at the University of Minnesota.

Membros

Discussions

somewhat explicit YA books em Name that Book (Março 2012)

Críticas

I started out hating this 1976 YA novel and wondering what on earth was going on with Norma Klein when she wrote it, since she was a total genius. Then, about a third of the way through, the book won me over. It's a stream-of-consciousness story about an 18 year old ballet student whose boyfriend is a choreographer at her school. He's an absolute monster (but that's not the main character's assessment) and she starts cracking up.
 
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jollyavis | Dec 14, 2021 |
 
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lcslibrarian | Aug 13, 2020 |
I've owned this book for ages. I don't remember when I read it, but I know that I loved ballet when I was quite young, and I read this at some point then. (Or, I at least looked at all the pictures. I no longer remember which.) I suppose I should re-read it now as an adult, since I've kept it on my bookshelf all these years.
 
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ca.bookwyrm | May 18, 2020 |
I don't remember seeing this on Banned Books lists and that surprises me. I wasn't too comfortable with a 14 year-old girl feeling 'behind' because she hadn't touched a boy's penis yet, or smoking pot with her mom, or hearing her family say shit and even fuck as if they're innocent as darn. And it's the kids' business whether or not mom and dad are doing it with other people? And this was a loving, relatively healthy and sane family, not dysfunctional.

And it was written in 1982? Did we still need YA novels that were written just to shock? Weren't we ready to focus on the characters and the story, instead of just on what we could get media attention for?

I guess I could forgive all that, but when Dad tells Mom that her friend Ogden was considered a 'laughingstock' for being patient with his mentally ill wife, and nobody except Mom, not even the author, seems to support Ogden, well, yuck.

Just so you know, there's more, though. Big sis is having an affair with her college professor, and though she's a feminist one of her friends is marrying, which is seen as betrayal. And her other best friend is gay. And Grandma in the City plays tennis better than our heroine. And is rich. And is living with a friend who has no income, and even buying him a $25,000 cello bow. And there's a poetry reading in the city. And the teens have jobs but Mom doesn't. And Dad sells his novel, which is actually pretty much a memoir.

Klein just felt she had to hit every button. She's not a bad writer, but this could have been richer and more intense if it were focused on real character development over a reasonably busy summer, instead of written with a shotgun approach.

Seriously, I'm glad this is obsolete. I can see some girls might have thrilled to it, but I wouldn't have even when I was a teen.
… (mais)
 
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Cheryl_in_CC_NV | Jun 6, 2016 |

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Obras
67
Also by
4
Membros
1,463
Popularidade
#17,562
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
17
ISBN
247
Línguas
10
Marcado como favorito
2

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