If Rock and Roll Were a Machine
Published on 15. December 2015
256 pages
978-1-4814-5634-0 (ISBN)
Description
New York Times bestselling author Terry Davis offers the critically acclaimed ?powerful story about a teenager's search for self-esteem? (Booklist, starred review).
When an elementary school teacher's criticisms turn Bert Bowden from a bright, popular boy into a self-conscious, awkward one, everyone is shocked. Bert is determined to regain his old confidence and become somebody great, but will he be able to overcome the silence of adolescent solitude?
This inspiring coming-of-age story, which takes place twenty years after Vision Quest, reminds us that the growing pains of adolescence are the price we pay must for finding happiness as we grow older.
When an elementary school teacher's criticisms turn Bert Bowden from a bright, popular boy into a self-conscious, awkward one, everyone is shocked. Bert is determined to regain his old confidence and become somebody great, but will he be able to overcome the silence of adolescent solitude?
This inspiring coming-of-age story, which takes place twenty years after Vision Quest, reminds us that the growing pains of adolescence are the price we pay must for finding happiness as we grow older.
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Person
Terry Davis is an American novelist who lives near Spokane, Washington, and is a professor emeritus of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato (MSU Mankato), where he taught creative writing-fiction and screenwriting-as well as adolescent literature. Davis, who has been a high school English teacher and a wrestling coach, is the author of three novels for young adults: Vision Quest, Mysterious Ways, and If Rock and Roll Were a Machine. He has also written Presenting Chris Crutcher, a biography of the respected young-adult author.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Albert Bowden Gives His Word
- Chapter 2: Parting Ways
- Chapter 3: Bert Gives His Word Again
- Chapter 4: Too Chickenshit to Live
- Chapter 5: Everything Changes
- Chapter 6: Bert Keeps His Word
- Chapter 7: Scott Shepard Meets Bert's Father and Resolves to Return a Kindness
- Chapter 8: Bert Keeps His Word Again
- Chapter 9: Reflection
- Chapter 10: Bowdenland
- Chapter 11: Young Mr. Bowden
- Chapter 12: Gramp and Gram
- Chapter 13: Lucky Bert Bowden
- Chapter 14: "Though Much Is Taken, Much Abides"
- Chapter 15: Peckered
- Chapter 16: The Most Important Thing to Do with Bert Bowden
- Chapter 17: Term of Endearment
- Chapter 18: Camille Shepard Embraces His Father
- Chapter 19: He Hath Borne Me on His Back a Thousand Times
- Chapter 20: Not a Harley Guy
- Chapter 21: The Second Best Thing
- Chapter 22: Bert Joins the Club
- Chapter 23: Bert Bashes His Head
- Chapter 24: It Ain't Magic
- Chapter 25: Waiver of Responsibility
- Chapter 26: Letting It Go
- Chapter 27: Phantom Pleasure, Phantom Pain
- Chapter 28: A Norton Guy
- Chapter 29: Bert Bowden Calling
- Chapter 30: Young Mr. Bowden Strikes Back
- Chapter 31: If Rock and Roll Were a Machine
- About Terry Davis
- Copyright
