Best of
Coming-Of-Age

1962

Something Wicked This Way Comes & A Sound of Thunder


Ray Bradbury - 1962
    Something Wicked This Way Comes and A Sound of Thunder

Portrait of a Young Man Drowning


Charles Perry - 1962
    Set in the world of Brooklyn gangsters and juvenile delinquents, Portrait of a Young Man Drowning reveals a character caught in a whirlpool of street crime and Oedipal passion, driven by circumstances beyond his control into acts of self-destruction and twisted sexuality.

The Trouble with Angels


Jane Trahey - 1962
    originally published with the title: Life with Mother Superior

I, The Aboriginal


Douglas Lockwood - 1962
    In his youth, Waipuldanya was taught to track and hunt wild animals, to live off the land, to provide for his family with the aide only of his spears and woomeras. This is the gripping story of his boyhood and youth, and how he trained as a skilled medical assistant, to become a citizen of both the Aboriginal and whitefella worlds.