I Am the Cheese (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Cormier
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Memory, Teenagers, Crime or criminals, Betrayal, Reality, Death or dying, Mysteries, Government, Isolation
- Locales: Massachusetts, Vermont
Cormier's next novel, I Am the Cheese, was a departure from his first success in a number of ways. The multiple points of view of the first novel become, in the second, a mosaic of perspectives that challenge the reader and build the tension in the novel until its very last word.
Even the innocuous opening of the novel—“I am riding the bicycle and I am on Route 31 in Monument, Massachusetts, on my way to Rutterburg, Vermont, and I’m pedaling furiously”—raises mysteries: Who is riding, and why? The second chapter only adds to readers’ confusion, for it starts...
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