The Metal Children: A Play

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Paperback
2010
$15.70

In small-town America, a young adult novel about teen pregnancy is banned by the local school board, igniting a fierce and violent debate over abortion, religious beliefs, and modern feminism. Its directionless New York City author arrives in town to defend the book and finds that it has inspired a group of local teens to rebel in strange and unexpected ways. A timely and unforgettable drama about the failure of urban and heartland America to understand each other, The Metal Children explores what happens when fiction becomes a matter of life and death.

Synopsis

In small-town America, a young adult novel about teen pregnancy is banned by the local school board, igniting a fierce and violent debate over abortion, religious beliefs, and modern feminism. Its directionless New York City author arrives in town to defend the book and finds that it has inspired a group of local teens to rebel in strange and unexpected ways. A timely and unforgettable drama about the failure of urban and heartland America to understand each other, The Metal Children explores what happens when fiction becomes a matter of life and death.

$15.70

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20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: 05 Mar 2010
ISBN 10: 0865479240
ISBN 13: 9780865479241

Media Reviews

[Rapp] shows an exuberant love for the written word...[He] tells stories that encase classical themes - class and envy, ambition and alienation - in blunt terms and in modern settings. - JESSE McKINLEY, The New York Times

Author Bio

Adam Rapp is the author of numerous plays, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist Red Light Winter, and the novel The Year of Endless Sorrows (FSG, 2006). In 2005, his young adult novel The Buffalo Tree was censored by a school board in Reading, Pennsylvania.