The guidance of two adults and his interest in motorcycles and writing help high school junior Bert Bowden regain the sense of self that had been destroyed by his fifth-grade teacher

If Rock & Roll Were a Machine

Davis, Terry

Teen & Young Adult

Delacorte Books for Young Readers

You think I’m just another muscle-bound, sex-crazed, fuzzy-brained, futureless JOCK. But You’re Wrong. I dream big. I love hard. I think far. I act fast. I live humbly. I want to win. And, yeah, I’m a jock. My Vision. My Quest. My Life. The cult classic coming-of-age novel is back.

Vision Quest

Literature & Fiction

You think I’m just another muscle-bound, sex-crazed, fuzzy-brained, futureless JOCK. But You’re Wrong. I dream big. I love hard. I think far. I act fast. I live humbly. I want to win. And, yeah, I’m a jock. My Vision. My Quest. My Life. The cult classic coming-of-age novel is back. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Louden Swain is on top of the world.  The funny, gutsy high school senior is a champion wrestler in training for a crucial state tournament.  He has the support of his beautiful, worldly girlfriend, Carla, and his teammate Kuch, who is on a spiritual journey.  Louden is living life to the fullest, and celebrating in it.  This honest and exuberant novel is full of engaging characters who revel in the high sprits and passions of growing up.

Laurel-Leaf

Regaining the sense of self that had been taken from him by his fifth-grade teacher, Bert Bowden, now a high-school junior, takes an interest in writing and in his new motorcycle with the help of two supportive adults. Reprint.

If Rock and Roll Were a Machine (Laurel-Leaf Books)

Gruffalo

Arts & Photography

Music

Faber Music Ltd

Karl Russell, an All-American fraternity student, confronts his shattered past and uncertain future during his sophomore year at a small Washington state college and during a summer vacation in Brazil

Mysterious Ways

United States

Viking Adult

An intensely serious high-school wrestler prepares for an important match while waging mental battles on other fronts: his love affair, his constant dieting, his relationship with his parents, and his inveterate novel-reading

Vision Quest : A Novel

Contemporary

Chatto&Windus

Drawing on a twenty-four-year friendship with Crutcherthe two met as undergraduates at Eastern Washington State College - Davis provides readers with a superbly crafted entree to the writer and his work, the first biocritical study devoted to Crutcher.In a cogent style, Davis delineates the people and events shaping Crutcher's character and commitment to youth and examines each of the published works, including Crutcher's 1992 novel for adults, The Deep End. While assessing each work's plot, theme, ethical perspectives, and critical reception, Davis draws freely on a wealth of personal observations from Crutcher and on insights Davis himself has gained during their long association. Readers learn, for example, that Crutcher can do one hundred straight push-ups; that his outlook was sharply influenced by his maternal grandfather, who grew up an orphan; and that at Christmastime Crutcher asks friends to give him not gifts but money he can use to help his clients at one of Spokane's mental health centers. Throughout, Davis employs engaging literary techniques to make his subject come alive for readers - taking readers on an imaginary motorcycle ride to visit the Idaho of Crutcher's youth, for instance, and introducing readers to Crutcher's mother, Jewell, who offers wry and telling remarks about her son.A portrait of a writer who infuses his work with physical, emotional, and intellectual energy, Presenting Chris Crutcher will appeal to young people, librarians, teachers of English and reading, and college and graduate students of adolescent literature.

Presenting Chris Crutcher (Twayne's United States Authors Series)

Twayne Pub

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If Rock & Roll Were a Machine

Vision Quest

Vision Quest

Vision Quest

If Rock and Roll Were a Machine (Laurel-Leaf Books)

Gruffalo

Mysterious Ways

Vision Quest

Vision Quest : A Novel

Presenting Chris Crutcher (Twayne's United States Authors Series)