Writing Ĭrutcher's debut novel was Running Loose in 1983 about a senior in high school who has it all until life throws him for a few loops. After his first book was completed, he joined Spokane's Child Protection Team and began practicing as a child and family therapist. Ĭrutcher taught at several primary and secondary schools in California and Washington before beginning his writing career. With no post-graduation plans or prospects, he went back to Eastern and got a teaching certificate. Īfter graduating from high school, Crutcher attended Eastern Washington State College (now Eastern Washington University) where he swam competitively and earned a BA in psychology and sociology. A few weeks after his birth, his father gave up flying and the family moved to his mother's hometown of Cascade, Idaho where his father could open an oil and gas wholesale business and he could grow up. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2000 for his lifetime contribution in writing for teens.Ĭrutcher was born Jto a World War II B17 bomber pilot and a homemaker in Dayton, Ohio. Stacy, Jen, and Dillon cut noble, heroic figures that, with the toe-neat ending, give this an air of unreality even so, Crutcher probes so many tender areas here that readers may end by feeling exhausted and emotionally bruised.Chris Crutcher (born July 17, 1946) is an American novelist and a family therapist.
Told partly in long, articulate letters from Dillon to his dead brother, and partly in a third-person narrative with the point of view shifting from one character to another, the story has a patchwork quality. Threats of violence-from a motorcycle gang looking for Dillon and from JeWs twisted stepfather-underscore acts of courage: Jen finally confiding in Dillon, Stacy announcing over the school intercom that the baby is actually hers. The other woman in Dillon's life is Stacy, Preston's old girlfriend, who took a long trip after Preston's suicide and now has a baby she claims is her cousin's. Teen-age characters have been knocked around in Crutcher's other stories, but not to this extent: Dillon Hemingway, still trying to recover from the effects of watching his older brother Preston commit suicide, meets Jen Lawless, a classmate who's been sexually abused-first by her father, then by her stepfather. Human beings are connected by the ghastly as well as the glorious,"" the author says-and demonstrates-in this intense, painful novel.
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