Twelve McDonell, Nick

Sold to 14 publishers around the world and receiving tremendous critical acclaim, "Twelve" was one of the most significant literary debuts of the year. A chilling novel of urban adolescence that is "both an indictment of excess and a cry of teenage loneliness" ("People("), it has appeared on multiple bestseller lists.

From the Publisher:
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.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.

Annotation:
Mike drops out of prep school to sell drugs, and his uppercrust ex-classmates are among his best customers. The preppies, who live on the Upper East Side, mix uneasily with the kids from nearby Harlem, and when there is a double murder and one of the crowd is arrested, Mike knows who did it. But will he tell the truth? TWELVE was written when the author himself was a prep school student in Manhattan. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

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Book Format:		Paperback
Minimum Age:		12
Number of Pages:		0256
Publisher:		Grove/Atlantic

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