ABSTRACT
Accompanying the black and white photograph of the author on the inside front cover of the TeenTracks edition of Rumble Fish, there is a short, but intriguing, biography:
‘I never set out to be a ground breaker or to be controversial. I just wanted to tell the truth about teenage life and to tell it the way it really is. Most adults don’t remember, or don’t want to remember, the emotional intensity and the idealism of being a teenager. That’s what makes my work different. Mostly I just remember real well what it was like to be a teenager. Some of the problems change, but the feelings don’t.’
