Taming the Star Runner (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: S. E. Hinton
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Adolescence, Teenagers, Oklahoma, Ranches, ranchers, or ranching, Horses, Horsemanship
- Locales: Tulsa, OK
In Taming the Star Runner, Hinton tries a different approach to telling her story: She abandons her first-person narration for a third-person point of view. The intensity which had earlier carried readers along in the voices of Ponyboy Curtis or Tex is replaced by the distance of the author's perspective.
Travis Harris has been sent to his uncle's Oklahoma horse ranch because his mother is afraid that he will eventually kill his stepfather, Stan. There are other reasons for getting Travis out of the violent urban world that so resembles earlier Hinton novels, and this...
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