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McDonnell, Nick Twelve
Atlantic Books May 15, 2003 1-84354-072-X / 9781843540724 Paperback Fine
"White Mike" dresses in an overcoat and lives with his dad on Manhattan's U pper East Side (his mom died of breast cancer not too long ago). The 17-yea r-old doesn't smoke, doesn't drink and doesn't do drugs. He dropped out of high school and now sells drugs pot and an Ecstasy-like upper called "twelv e" to the city's moneyed teens. In this shocker of a first novel, McDonell who was 17 when he wrote it carries readers through White Mike's franticall y spinning world, one alternately peopled with obscenely wealthy teenagers who live in gated townhouses with parents rarely in town and FUBU-clad bask etball players in Harlem. In terse, controlled prose, McDonell describes fi ve days in White Mike's life during Christmas break. He introduces a host o f characters, ranging from Sara Ludlow ("the hottest girl at her school by, like, a lot") to Lionel ("a creepy dude" with "brown and yellow bloodshot eyes" who also sells drugs), writing mainly in the present tense, but somet imes flashing back in italics. His prose darts from one scene and character to the next, much like a cab zipping down city streets, halting quickly at a red light and then accelerating madly as soon as the light turns green. And although it brims with New York references e.g., the MetLife Building a nd Lenox Hill Hospital this is really a story about excess and its effects. The final scene, at a raging New Year's Eve party, will leave readers stun ned, as well as curious as to what might come next from this precocious wri ter.
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500.00 JPY
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