The Dead I Know
Allen & Unwin, $19.99 pb, 208 pp, 9781742373843
Young Adult Fiction
The Dead I Know by Scot Gardner & The Comet Box by Adrian Stirling
by Stephen Mansfield •
The way nostalgia works, according to theorists, is that we pine for the era just before our own. This may be why the twenty-something musicians of today mine the sounds of the 1980s. But does this pattern succeed in Young Adult fiction? What does an author gain by setting his or her story in the ‘nostalgia zone’ of potential readers?
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