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	John Huntington- The Unity of Childhood's End
		Childhood's End is a novel which on one level may be merely an exercise in satisfying a special market but on another engages ideas of deep concern to the author himself.
		Childhood's End, while by using the two-stage myth of progress it satisfies the demands of progress and avoids the frustrations of attainment, escapes the disabling dichotomy of structure of 2001 by introducing a middle term which joins the two states of vision.
		But the novel as a whole does not preach despair because, while it repeats the initial situation on a higher plane, it also performs the miraculous transformation of human into Overmind so that the first and the last terms of the proportion are seen as spiritually the same.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/3/huntington3art.htm (4961 words)

	WELCOME TO THE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The novel is exciting and is constantly keeping you on the end of your seat with its exhilarating tales.
		Bone" is a powerful novel that tells the tale of the pressures and problems faced by a first-generation Chinese- American family with teenagers coming of age in San Francisco's Chinatown.
		The novel is an interesting reflection on life lived by a young woman dedicated to her family, heritage, and personal struggle.
	www.personal.psu.edu /lai115/lisa/litlink.html (677 words)

	SparkNotes: Childhood's End: Context
		Sir Arthur C. Clarke was born in 1917 in the coastal town of Minehead, England.
		Childhood's End became one of Clarke's most successful novels, and, to this day, it is still considered by many to be his greatest work.
		Since the 1950s, Clarke has continued to publish dozens of novels, further cementing his status as one of the most important science fiction authors of the twentieth century.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/childhoodsend/context.html (476 words)

	Amazon.ca: Childhood: Books: Andre Alexis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Childhood, by André Alexis, is a quiet, contemplative novel, reminiscent of a long reverie.
		The lyricism doesn't sound forced or contrived; the narrator doesn't over-dramatize himself or those around him; and the plot is nothing less than life itself, the passing of time, the evolution of life into inevitable death.
		The remmbrance of an unusual childhood and how we come to perceive the world through many experienes, is revealed through snpshots of his life.
	www.amazon.ca /Childhood-Andre-Alexis/dp/0771006659 (790 words)

	The Childhood Experience in Joan Riley's The Unbelonging (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This fractured childhood scenario is highlighted through the experiences of eleven year-old Hyacinth, who exiles from Jamaica to Britain to join her father.
		She achieves this atypical childhood presentation through turning the typical elements of a childhood novel on its head.
		Her isolation from the playground, the center of childhood interaction, is testament to her awareness of unbelonging: "She hated the cold, hated the playground and the screaming, noisy children.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~bump/E388M2/students/meraz/childhood.html (1404 words)

	Part Four WIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This childhood is filled with naiveté, wonder and discovery and the adventure extracted by boys and girls from their surroundings.
		When the books ends, Christopher's childhood is over and it is marked by the death of his fl nurse Gip who had provided him affection and comfort which he was unable to receive from his parents.
		We are spectators of the silent drama of a sensitive boy's reactions to the events and objects of the caged world which his parents have made for him.
	www.nathanielturner.com /westindiannarrative4.htm (617 words)

	Childhood (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Childhood (Детство [Detstvo]; 1852) is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy.
		This book describes the major physiological decisions of boyhood that all boys experience.
		Full text of Childhood in the original Russian
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Childhood_(novel) (128 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| THE FIRST MAN by Albert Camus
		The incomplete manuscript of The First Man, which Camus had referred to as "the novel of my maturity," was found in a mud-spattered briefcase near the wreckage of the car in which Camus died in January of 1960, when he was forty-six.
		Partly a novel of childhood and partly an epic narrative of his beloved Algeria, The First Man was intended to re-create Camus's homeland-- then still a colony in a traumatic struggle for independence-- for the mainland French.
		In the novel, how is the mother's identity fixed by the loss of her husband in the French forces in World War I? What happens when a potential lover enters the household?
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/first_man.asp (1439 words)

	Eye Weekly - Books - 04.09.98
		Childhood isn't an experimental novel exactly, but in its own way it's as prospective and provocative as Alexis' previous writing.
		Alexis identifies that sense of displacement, of identity in flux, as not only the most autobiographical element of the novel, but the clearest indication that the book was written by an immigrant.
		Childhood, as Alexis puts it, is "a book about origin" in every sense of the word.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_04.09.98/plus/books.html (1289 words)

	McClelland.com \| Books \| Childhood by Andre Alexis
		Uniquely imagined and vividly evoked, André Alexis’s prize-winning novel chronicles the childhood – or perhaps the loss of childhood – of Thomas MacMillan, who sets out to piece together the early years of his life.
		Moving and wryly humorous, Childhood tells the story of a man’s quest for what is lost, bringing him closer to the truth about himself.
		His debut novel, Childhood (1998), won the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, shared the Trillium Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Rogers Communications Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
	www.mcclelland.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771006678 (256 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| The Warmest December \| Bernice L. McFadden
		She is still haunted by her childhood, and learning that her father is dying she is shocked by her own desire to be with him during his final hours.
		Returning to his bedside day after day in search of a way to heal her pain, she comes to discover in her visits that some of us, like her father, have stories that "started out bad, curdled and soured in the middle, and ended up worse," but for many, there is still hope for change.
		Near the end of the novel, Kenzie tells her father that "I know why you were who you were.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/warmest_december.html (1071 words)

	Kotik Letaev, Andrei Bely
		One of the most important works of twentieth-century Russian prose, Kotik Letaev, the great symbolist novel of childhood, depicts the emergence of consciousness and its development into self-consciousness in a Russian boy growing up among the Moscow intelligentsia in the 1800s.
		Kotik's experience is based on elements from Bely's own early childhood, but on a larger level his experience represents the stages of human history, the history of philosophy, and childhood language development.
		The story, seen through the eyes of a child from the age of three to five years, is told in complex, poetically developed adult language, rich in imagery and musical sound effects.
	nupress.northwestern.edu /title.cfm?ISBN=0-8101-1626-X (128 words)

	The Annotated "Childhood's End" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		"Childhood's End appeared in the first set, following "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again," and preceding "Don't Ease Me In." Also appearing for the first time in this show was "Matilda."
		12-22) He states that "Childhood's End" is only the second song for which he wrote the lyrics, the other being "No Left Turn Unstoned," which he says he can't even listen to anymore.
		The song's title is reminiscent of the Arthur C. Clarke 1953 novel.
	arts.ucsc.edu /gdead/agdl/chil.html (299 words)

	Ash review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This drama leads to some of the most affecting passages in the novel, especially when Caitlin is reunited in Kyoto with her "number-two family," the family of her best friend from childhood.
		The novel is less effective, though, when the narrator, like Caitlin, withholds for many pages a clear explanation of what happened in the past.
		Though the novel, at times, veers toward melodrama, and more could be said about the biracial's teens problems, instead of having her resolution subsumed by Caitlin's drama, "Ash" successfully shows a Japan through Western eyes that isn't the exotic locale of samurai and geisha but a place where an American can have powerful, emotional connections.
	home.earthlink.net /~mjanairo/ash.html (245 words)

	Books: Childhood
		Because of André Alexis' publicity shot on the flap of his first novel, Childhood, I'm expecting someone a bit like the narrator, Thomas MacMillan--the kind of person who likes to make and keep schedules.
		The cliché about first novels is that they're usually autobiographical, but Childhood reads like a work of pure imagination.
		They share the same birth date, they both have family from Trinidad and they both spent chunks of their childhood in Ottawa and a small Ontario border town called Petrolia.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1998/052198/book.html (771 words)

	The Next Generation Bookrounds Clubs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Published in France for the first time last year--34 years after it was discovered in the wreckage of the car in which Camus was killed--this autobiographical novel covers the years of Camus' childhood in Algeria, growing up in poverty among silent, illiterate women, desperately searching for a father.
		The First Man is a radiant, deeply moving novel of childhood.
		"A remarkable autobiographical novel of childhood, just published in France in 1994 (Paris: Editions Gallimard), 34 years after the handwritten manuscript was discovered in the car wreckage when Camus (1913-1960) was killed.
	www.bookrounds.com /book/The_First_Man.html (989 words)

	Quill & Quire
		Although he couldn't have been more than two or three at the time, Alexis, now 41, can still remember the trauma of an absence, and the perplexity of his family's reunion in Ottawa in 1961 when he was four years old.
		However, Alexis downplays suggestions that the new novel bears a strong autobiographical streak (even though he's given the central character his own birth date, January 15,1957, and set the novel in a town where he actually lived).
		Childhood was originally to be published by Coach House Press in fall 1996, but was delayed when the press went out of business in the summer of that year.
	www.quillandquire.com /authors/profile.cfm?article_id=1000 (1096 words)

	Childhood Cancer -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		''Childhood's End'' is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke.
		It was originally published in 1953, and a version with a new introduction was released in 2001.
		''Childhood's End'' deals with the transformation of humanity into part of an interplanetary hive mind.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/31/childhood-cancer.html (543 words)

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		Her novel is the story of Dee Dee, an eighth-grader who loses her mother and becomes the "third wheel" when her father remarries a jealous, manipulative woman.
		In her column, she is forced to process her own family problems by giving advice to classmates who write in with similar issues.
		The path that led Nichols to the writing of this book began with her first attempt at a novel in the eighth grade.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2006/03/13/books/3_11_0618_25_01.prt (591 words)

	Frankie and Stankie by Barabara Trapido, reviews, links and opinions, book club reading suggestions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It has taken Trapido many years and other novels before she felt she could approach her own story and her South African past, and the wisdom and her own personal experience is reflected in the maturity of the writing.
		In the unforced voice of childhood, the novel documents some key political events of the period.
		Her novels abound in the same strange coincidences, small but significant miracles, cruel and unexpected deaths, virtue surprisingly rewarded, and love flaring up between unlikely people.
	www.book-club.co.nz /books03/6frankiestankie.htm (1269 words)

	Great Expectations essays. Unlimited access to English Literature coursework. GCSE and other UK qualifications - ...
		Great expectations by Charles Dickens was recently voted as being in the top 5 opening novels of all time....
		Is chapter one of Great Expectations an effective beginning to the novel?...
		What is the significance of Chapter 1 of Great Expectations in relation to the novel as a whole?...
	www.coursework.info /269/index.html (718 words)

	HBC biography: Marcel Proust
		The book turned into a novel that he would continue to write for the rest of his life.
		This autobiographical novel was written mostly in the stream-of-consciousness style.
		The work includeds a dizzying collection of childhood memmories, literary ans sociological discusions from cultured salons, observations of the wealthy life style, social gossip, and much more.
	histclo.com /bio/p/bio-proust.html (1915 words)

	Amazon.com: Blues for a Lost Childhood: A Novel of Brazil: Books: Antonio Torres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The nameless narrator of Torres's (The Land) novel writes from the depths of an insomniac's drunken stupor.
		Torres' is among the generation of Brazilian authors whose voice was forged during the 1964-1985 military regime.
		The most interesting element in "Blues for a Lost Childhood" is the strange construction: a nameless self-pitying narrator in a drunken stupor recalling the decline and death of his best friend.
	www.amazon.com /Blues-Lost-Childhood-Novel-Brazil/dp/0930523679 (780 words)

	Powell's Books - The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
		For Harriet, though, Robin is a link to the happier past she knows about from stories and photographs; and so she decides, in the summer of her 12th year, to find his murderer and exact her revenge.
		A grandly ambitious and riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil.
		Even more transfixingly suspenseful than its predecessor, this is a dark work of lost childhood, rich in moral paradox, as a 12-year-old Mississippi girl sets out to find her brother's murderer.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=1400031699 (1096 words)

	Childhood's End, the Mystery of Order
		In Arthur C. Clarke's classic science fiction novel, Childhood's End [1953], the Earth is visited by powerful aliens, the Overlords.
		Childhood's End is itself an example of this.
		What we should be ready for, however, is that whatever the future holds, there is an excellent chance that it will be all but incomprehensible in terms of what we already think we know.
	www.friesian.com /order.htm (4263 words)

	Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke: Science Fiction Inventions
		Science fiction in the News articles describe real-world events that relate to the ideas and inventions in sf novels and movies.
		At a conference last year on global warming, distinguished astrophysicist and sf author Gregory Benford pointed out that the various measures proposed to stop global warming will not do the job soon enough.
		Humans depended mostly on aliens for help in Clarke's 1953 novel Childhood's End.
	www.technovelgy.com /ct/AuthorSpecNewsList.asp?BkNum=241 (184 words)

	Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
		Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry) is in final talks to direct a big-screen adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's classic SF novel Childhood's End for Universal Pictures/Beacon Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
		A screenwriter is expected to come aboard shortly to adapt the project, the trade paper reported.
		Published in 1953, Clarke's novel features giant spaceships that suddenly appear over every major city on Earth, ushering in an era of peace and prosperity and setting the stage for the end of the human race as we know it.
	www.scifi.com /scifiwire/art-main.html?2002-02/01/12.30.film (194 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2004005973 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Told in the voice of a girl as she moves from childhood into adolescence, Buxton Spice is the story the town of Tamarind Grove: its eccentric families, its sweeping joys, and its sudden tragedies.
		The novel brings to life 1970s Guyana--a world at a cultural and political crossroads--and perfectly captures a child"s keen observations, sense of wonder, and the growing complexity of consciousness that marks the passage from innocence to experience.
		Her story is also one of sexual awakening, and she explores these new feelings with a curiosity and freedom that are refreshing.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hm051/2004005973.html (298 words)

	USATODAY.com - Banville's 'The Sea' wins Booker Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Sea— Banville's 14th novel — is narrated by Max Morden, a middle-aged arts historian, who, mourning the death of his wife, returns to the Irish seaside town where he spent a summer childhood.
		It is there that he confronts a traumatic event that has haunted him since childhood.
		Never Let Me Go, a novel about childhood by Ishiguro also was considered a strong contender, as was On Beauty, the third novel by 29-year-old Smith, who has twice been on the long list for the prize.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2005-10-10-booker-prize_x.htm (515 words)

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