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As Tall As Monsters

Bigley, James C, II
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1396875288

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2014, Master of Fine Arts, University of Akron, Creative Writing.
This coming of age novel follows three friends as they navigate through their final summer before high school. Sanders is the son of a religious fanatic determined to control the citizens of the small town and manipulate them to do her bidding. Johnny is the leader of the pack, inherently violent and misguided. Andrew, the narrator, is a peacekeeper who finds himself strangely attached to Johnny and all of the wildness he embodies. As a traveling carnival comes to town for the annual Giant's Festival, a girl their age goes missing, and the town becomes restless in searching for the one responsible. No one is safe, and everything will change as these childhood friends begin to realize that they are as monstrous as they're ever going to be and they are at an age where their future identities hang in the balance, weighted and determined by the decisions they make and subsequently avoid.
Christopher Barzak, Mr. (Advisor)
Robert Pope, Mr. (Committee Member)
Imad Rahman, Mr. (Committee Member)
186 p.
Fine Arts; Gender; Gender Studies; Literature
coming of age; creative writing; fiction; carnival; group dynamics; queer literature; lgbt; midwest; midwestern society; Ohio; coming of age stories; young adult literature; teenage development

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  • Bigley, II, J. C. (2014). As Tall As Monsters [Master's thesis, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1396875288

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bigley, II, James. As Tall As Monsters. 2014. University of Akron, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1396875288.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bigley, II, James. "As Tall As Monsters." Master's thesis, University of Akron, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1396875288

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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