Cormier's fiction for young adults tends to push the edge of what society deems acceptable reading for them.
Tenderness pushes the edge very hard, the way the unrelenting cruelty and stripping away of young people's civil rights pushed the edge in The Chocolate War. Much of Cormier's writing is nightmarish, peopled with characters who have been abandoned by society and characters who are antisocial.....
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