- Anarchists, Drama, Drug abuse, Fiction
An uncompromising, compelling and true-to-life story of two teenagers drawn into the dangerous and destructive world of heroin addiction. This tour de force by an acclaimed and provocative writer should become a definitive teenage novel on this subject.
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Grave, earnest, contemporary and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Melvin Burgess
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 278
- Publisher
- Methuen Drama, Penguin Books, Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780413738400
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