coming-of-age

coming-of-age

Describing something, such as a book or film, that focuses on a character's maturation to adulthood. Her coming-of-age novel focuses on a child born into poverty who goes on to be a Harvard graduate.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • dollars-and-cents
  • college
  • cow college
  • puff piece
  • merchant of doom
  • come of age
  • pan across to
  • pan across to (someone or something)
  • pan over to (someone or something)
  • talent management
References in periodicals archive
Iris' own coming-of-age birthday was left unmarked, and after her dismissal from private school, the family opted to move to another part of Brooklyn where they could also join a new church.
Red at the Bone
The movie, backed by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani's Excel Entertainment, is reportedly a coming-of-age story based on the lives of street rappers in Mumbai.
Alia Bhatt and Ranveer Singh start filming 'Gully Boy'
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David Bezmozgis's 'Natasha' Is a Coming-of-age, Russian-Jewish Immigrant Drama
While traditional YA deals with coming-of-age, sexuality and relationships, fans of NA argue that coming-of-age is still the realm of the twenty-plus experience.
Youth and the older crowd: The Almighty Johnsons and redefining coming of age television
Ramos has written a realistic, gritty, and witty coming-of-age story that focuses on not only Skinny's growth, but the growth of all the characters.
The Skinny Years
In your opening letter, you mentioned that "Anonymous" in the letters section "argues that we love coming-of-age novels because we read them when we ourselves were coming of age ...
"Real" coming of age books
Like most coming-of-age celebrations, the event may be big or small, and more- or less-focused on religion.
Growing up around the globe
A Place at the Table reads like a Greek tragedy as well as a case study in the coming-of-age of Evangelical scholarship.
A Place at the Table: George Eldon Ladd and the Rehabilitation of Evangelical Scholarship in America
Chips, To Sir With Love, and Dead Poets Society, Alan Bennett's sparkling coming-of-age comedy about eight working- and middle-class students prepping for their university exams asks whether learning is meant to prepare us for life or success.
The History Boys
Very highly recommended reading and an appropriate addition to academic and community library American Biography collections, "I Have America Surrounded" is a compelling, informed, and informative biography of one of the key figures in the 'hippie' cultural movement that stamped the baby boomer coming-of-age experience on and off the college campus.
I Have America Surrounded
This is more a character exploration and coming-of-age tale than a sports saga, but Flint's narration and the wonderfully witty and realistic dialogue between him and his friends make it an especially engaging read.
Powell, Randy. Three clams and an oyster
Black-and-white artwork by Paul Zima enhances this absorbing coming-of-age saga.
Sunbirds and Evergreens
Though these issues are explored in the film, the result is actually a set of wonderfully funny, uplifting, and campy coming-of-age stories rather than a serious religious diatribe.
Camp Outgoes inside
Plenty Porter by Brandon Noonan is a nicely scripted coming-of-age novel about the youngest daughter a poor sharecropping family from rural Illinois.
Plenty Porter
Deftly written by the talented author Virginia Hamilton (whose Children's Literature awards include the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the Newberry Medal, and the Coretta Scott King Award), Time Pieces: The Book Of Times is an audiobook coming-of-age story for young people.
Time Pieces: The Book of Times