From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 10:19:43 -0500

Novelist and playwright Adam Rapp is featured In a recent article by Jesse McKinley, "Writer's Youths in Pain Have the Will to Survive" (New York Times 5/14/03: Arts Section, pp. 1 & 5).

In part, Mr. Rapp is quoted as saying, "I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time...There's so much they are up against, so many pressures: drugs, AIDS, puberty...Your life is constantly on edge."

Adam Rapp's novels published for young adults are "Missing the Piano"
(Viking, 1994); The Buffalo Tree" (Front Street, 1997); "The Copper Elephant" (Front Street, 1999); "Little Chicago" (Front Street, 2002); and "33 Swordfish" (Candlewick, 2003).

McKinley observes that Rapp was a "prolific reader and writer who came to both habits well after puberty" and also that he "tells stories that encase classical themes - class and envy, ambition and alienation - in blunt terms and modern settings."

- Ginny


Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu
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