Rumble Fish | Overview
Hinton's fiction marks a radical departure from the adolescent novels that preceded it. Whereas these earlier novels generally revolved around romantic crises or adolescent-parent conflicts, Hinton examines the divisive character pf adolescent society, the complicated relationships between individuals and groups, and in the case of Rumble Fish the tragic consequences of the ways in which some young people approach life.
A short novel, Rumble Fish demonstrates a skilled writer's ability to compress explosive power into a limited amount of space and to create language...
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