Twelve - Brossura

McDonell, Nick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0802140122 ISBN 13: 9780802140128

Casa editrice: Grove Pr, 2003

Riassunto

A chilling portrait of urban adolescence focuses on the life and times of White Mike, a seventeen-year-old prep-school dropout and drug dealer, and his privileged peers, who spend their time partying with sex, drugs, and escalating violence in the pursuit of ever more exotic and dangerous thrills. A first novel. Reprint. 100,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

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As fast as speed, as relentless as acid.” Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Nick McDonell is the real thing, a powerful young writer with the look of a dangerous freak and very sharp teeth. The ratio of age to talent is horrifying. His trick is he writes the truth. I'm afraid he will do for his generation what I did for mine." Hunter S. Thompson

An astonishing rush of a first novel, all heat and ice and inexorable narrative drive A pleasure to read, a horror to contemplate, a real achievement.” Joan Didion

McDonell is an authentic talent His novel will endure as a snapshot of his generation as surely as Less Than Zero did of the eighties.” Stephanie Merritt, The Observer (London)

[McDonell] renders Manhattan’s cosseted Upper East Side with both the casual authority of an insider and the wry distance of an observer .Impressive.” Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Book Review

McDonell, like the young Jim Caroll, displays a frightening acuity in his astonishing debut.” Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair

Product Description:

Creating a sensation around the world when it was first published, "Twelve" established it s seventeen-year-old author as a powerful voice of the new millennium. The chilling novel follows prep school dropout White Mike through the week between Christmas and New Year s 1999, as he takes a year off to deal an alluring new drug to his privileged peers on Manhattan s Upper East Side. But "Twelve" is not a coming-of-age story, because its kids never had a childhoodtheir parents are off on holiday in Bali or business in Brussels, leaving hired help to look the other way as the kids stay home alone in their multimillion-dollar town houses, partying with drugs and sex and, in the end, much worse. "

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• Editore: Grove Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0802140122
• ISBN 13: 9780802140128
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256