Cormier's first work of fiction -- a novel for adults -- was published in 1963, but it was with the groundbreaking novel The Chocolate War (1974) that Robert became a full-time writer. A gentle, caring, family-orientated man, Robert was concerned about the problems facing young people in modern society. This concern is reflected in his novels, which are often brutal and always uncompromising in their depiction of the individual struggling in the face of power, corruption, victimization, betrayal, and conspiracy. Tenderness (1998), for example, depicts the relationship between a teenage runaway and a juvenile serial killer. In Heroes (1998), a teenage war hero and victim returns to confront the idolized youth leader who betrayed him.
"Robert Cormier." Puffin Books. Penguin, 2012. Web. 16 Jan 2013.
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MRC has many of Robert Cormier's books available, including...
- The Chocolate War and Beyond the Chocolate War
- Tenderness
- Heroes
- We All Fall Down
- Tunes for Bears to Dance To
- Fade
- After the First Death
- The Rag and Bone Shop
- I Am the Cheese
- Frenchtown Summer