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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Sandra Scoppettone Information
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 Sandra Scoppettone is an American author whose career spans the 1960s through the 2000s. She is known for her mystery and young adult books. She also wrote Suzuki Beane (1961 with illustrator Louise...
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 Film - Dienst Sandra Dee
03/01/2005: 359 words, approx. 1 pages Im Musical ,,Grease" sang Stockard Channing 1979 als High-School-Absolventin ,,Look at me, I am Sandra Dee" und manifestierte damit deren Mythos als Idealverkörperung des amerikanischen Teenagers. Im Kino der 1950er- und frühen 1960er-Jahre personifizierte Sandra Dee sämtliche Klischees des Backfischs aus der kleinstädtischen Nachbarschaft:... summary from source:
The Boston Globe Sandra Fairbank
01/25/1998: 919 words, approx. 3 pages Since 1983, Sandra Fairbank, 50, has designed more than 15 area restaurants and cafes, including Sandrine's, in Cambridge, and, in Boston, Lala Rokh, Hamersley's Bistro, and the new Anago. Why are restaurant environments so important now? Our lives have become frantic, and many...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Geraldine Deluca
586 words, approx. 2 pages
[Happy Endings Are All Alike] is Scoppettone's second work to deal with homosexuality, and it is a far more positive and assertive treatment of the subject than her first. The earlier work, Trying Hard to Hear You, dealt with a furtive, guilt-ridden, male relationship that ended in tragedy. But this work, perhaps buoyed by the women's movement and a more vocal stance on the part of homosexuals in the culture, recognizes that young adult literature must, from time to time, acknowledge homosexua... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Lenore Gordon
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There is virtually no validation for the lesbian teenager, and not only is her right to self-respect opposed by adult institutions, but she is also subject to emotional and/or physical abuse from homophobic peers. Scoppettone deals with such problems, including the rape of one of the protagonists, with depth and sensitivity in Happy Endings…. Her book concerns the lesbian relationship (already in progress) between Jaret and Peggy, upper-middle-class high school seniors in a small eastem town. The cen... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Kate Waters
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Such Nice People covers a five-day period during which 17-year-old Tom, second child and first son of a family who collectively have every problem in vogue in YA literature, carries out instructions from SOLA, a phosphorescent ruler, to kill his family with the exception of older sister Kit who is to be Duchess in the new order…. Kit, a doctoral candidate in psychology, lives away from home but is due to arrive for the holidays. She is in therapy to work through the residue of various love affairs. S...
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