Twelve |
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Author:
| McDonell, Nick |
ISBN: | 978-0-8021-4012-8 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2003 |
Publisher: | Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $17.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionCreating 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.