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FROM: "Jennifer Hendzlik" <[removed]@mail.sgcl.org>
REC'D: 1/22/03, 9:08 AM

I need your collective help! I have a patron who is looking for
an adult fiction title that deals with bullying. It needs to be
something that would be worthwhile discussing.

Thank you in advance for your help!

~Jen

Jennifer Hendzlik, MLS
Reference Department Manager
Brentwood Branch Library
Springfield, MO 65804
(417)874-8130
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FROM: "Laura Adler" <[removed]@dppl.org>
REC'D: 1/22/03, 11:25 AM

Richard Russo's pulitzer prize-winning novel, Empire Falls, deals with bullying, among many other subjects. One of the characters, a high school boy, is bullied and ostracized, the repercussions of which lead to the novel's climax.

Laura Adler

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Des Plaines Public Library

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FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/22/03, 12:28 PM

Ken Wells's Meely LaBauve has a pretty nasty
bully in it, Junior Guidry, who moves from
antagonist to protagonist in the sequel -
Junior's Leg - which picks up his life years
later - he's still a jerk - but he gets some
chances at redemption. Kind of a neat trick. I
haven't read the third one, Logan's Storm, yet.

What about Pat Conroy's The Lords of Discipline?
I remember lots of terrible coersion in that.

And while it is not about bullying per se, Frank
Conroy's memoir Stop Time has some memorably
brutal moments along those lines, aside from
being a brilliant memoir of the pains, pressures
and thrills of growing up.

Homophobic bullies figure prominently in
Christopher Rice's A Density of Souls.

The Reappearance of Sam Webber, by Jonathan Scott

Fuqua, is sort of a classic coming-of-age story
for young and old readers, and there's a bully
who figures prominently in that.

There's a school bully in Haruf's Plainsong.

David Wright
Seattle Public Library

--- Jennifer Hendzlik <[removed]@mail.sgcl.org>
wrote:
> I need your collective help! I have a patron
> who is looking for
> an adult fiction title that deals with
> bullying. It needs to be
> something that would be worthwhile discussing.
>
> Thank you in advance for your help!
>
> ~Jen
>
>
>
> Jennifer Hendzlik, MLS
> Reference Department Manager
> Brentwood Branch Library
> Springfield, MO 65804
> (417)874-8130
> [removed]@mail.sgcl.org
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FROM: Vicki Novak - LIBRARYX <[removed]@MAIL.MARICOPA.GOV>
REC'D: 1/22/03, 12:38 PM

Snow in August by Pete Hamill has some bullying motivated by prejudice.

Vicki Novak
Adult Services Librarian
[removed]@mail.maricopa.gov

North Central Regional Library
Maricopa County Library District
17811 N. 32nd St.
Phoenix, AZ 85032
http://mcld.maricopa.gov

--- Jennifer Hendzlik <[removed]@mail.sgcl.org>
wrote:
> I need your collective help! I have a patron
> who is looking for
> an adult fiction title that deals with
> bullying. It needs to be
> something that would be worthwhile discussing.
>
> Thank you in advance for your help!
>
> ~Jen
>
>
>
> Jennifer Hendzlik, MLS
> Reference Department Manager
> Brentwood Branch Library
> Springfield, MO 65804
> (417)874-8130
> [removed]@mail.sgcl.org

FROM: "Waznis, Betty" <[removed]@sdcounty.ca.gov>
REC'D: 1/22/03, 6:26 PM

Cat's Eye, by Margaret Atwood. Narrator remembers aggressive bullying by
childhood friends on a return to her home town of Toronto.

Betty Waznis
San Diego County Library

FROM: Cindy Lunghofer <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 7:45 AM

"Goodnight, Nebraska" has several characters that are
bullies in it. There's also some bullying/peer
pressure in it, too. Not just for Mid-westerners!


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Cindy Lunghofer
Deputy Director
East Providence Public Library
East Providence, RI

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 8:49 AM

>From: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: adult fiction bullly books?
>Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:22:16 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>What about Pat Conroy's The Lords of Discipline?
>I remember lots of terrible coersion in that.
>

His "The Great Santini" has a father who's something of a bully.

Weldon Hill's "The Long Summer of George Adams" includes in its large cast a
wannabe pro boxer (one of the four Summers brothers) who tends to lean on
people. And it's a good discussion book, though longish.

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FROM: "Ann Jarvis" <[removed]@vlc.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 8:59 AM

If I recall correctly,

Wish You Well by David Baldacci has a bully in the story.

The character's aggressiveness stems from an abusive father.

Ann C Jarvis
Grace A Dow Memorial Library
Midland MI

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Subject: RE: adult fiction bullly books?
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:18:29 -0600

>I need your collective help! I have a patron who is looking for
>an adult fiction title that deals with bullying. It needs to be
>something that would be worthwhile discussing.
>
>Thank you in advance for your help!
>
>~Jen
>
>
>
>Jennifer Hendzlik, MLS
>Reference Department Manager
>Brentwood Branch Library
>Springfield, MO 65804
>(417)874-8130
[removed]@mail.sgcl.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>.
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
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FROM: RYOUNGERMAN <[removed]@mail.selco.lib.mn.us>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 9:10 AM

Two books that came to my mind were "Peace Like a River", Leif Enger,
and "Plainsong," Kent Haruf. The bullies are not main characters, but
the consequences of their actions resonate throughout the books.

Robin Youngerman
Winona Public Library
Winona, Minnesota

FROM: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@brighton.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 9:21 AM

"We Were the Mulvaneys" by Joyce Carol Oates.

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

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