With its multiplicity of settings and kaleidoscopic mix of preoccupations - sex, Russia, jet helicopters, seismic upheaval, boarding schools, Middle Earth, skinheads, home improvement, suicide, skateboarding, Sovietology, public transportation, massage, Christian fundamentalism, dogs, Texas, global thermonuclear war, truth, evil, masturbation, hope, Bethlehem, CT, eventual salvation (abridged list)-- Oh the Glory of It All is memoir as bildungsroman as explosion. (bookbrowse.com)
Written and directed by Chad Hartigan (This Is Martin Bonner), Morris from America is a bittersweet bildungsroman which never hits a false note. (kamwilliams.com)
Part picaresque, part bildungsroman, Lady Bird & The Fox is a return to the dual - narrative romantic adventure of my early novels — packed with the kinds of historical detail that are generally overlooked in Australian fiction, and told with a bit of a wry smile and plenty of warmth. (writerfulbooks.com)