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McDonell has crafted a pulsing narrative that clips along at an after-hours pace, pulling the reader along like an ominous rip tide, shifting easily from the Upper East Side to Harlem to Central Park to introduce a cast of loosely connected characters. White Mike, Twelve's clean-living, Cheerios-loving, milkshake-drinking drug dealer, drives the majority of the barely-there plot. ("Mike uses a teaspoon to eat his cereal, not a big soup spoon, because he likes to have less milk in his mouth with each bite" is about as deep as it gets.) Character development is limited to an easy shorthand ("Long legs, large breasts, blond hair, blue eyes, high cheekbones.") that results in a simple surface-skimming, leaving one too many caricatures of the very youth culture McDonell is writing about. Readers will see the blood-spattered, penultimate set piece coming down Fifth Avenue from page one, but any potential shock value or drama is immediately deflated in Twelve's head-scratching hangover of a denouement. --Brad Thomas Parsons
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Book Description Condition: New. 2003. Main. Paperback. Nick McDonell's novel tells the story of a fictional drug called Twelve and its devastating effects on the beautiful rich and desperate poor of New York City. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 190. 256 pages. Nick McDonell's novel tells the story of a fictional drug called Twelve and its devastating effects on the beautiful rich and desperate poor of New York City. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FF. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 20. Weight: 244. . . . . . Seller Inventory # V9781843540724
Book Description Condition: New. 2003. Main. Paperback. Nick McDonell's novel tells the story of a fictional drug called Twelve and its devastating effects on the beautiful rich and desperate poor of New York City. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 190. 256 pages. Nick McDonell's novel tells the story of a fictional drug called Twelve and its devastating effects on the beautiful rich and desperate poor of New York City. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FF. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 20. Weight: 244. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9781843540724
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Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Waterstones' Books of the YearNick McDonell's electrifying novel tells the story of a fictional drug called Twelve and its devastating effects on the beautiful rich and desperate poor of New York City.From page one, this novel pulsates towards its apocalyptic climax. Twelve is cool, cruel and utterly compulsive.Twelve has been adapted for film by Hollywood director Joel Schumacher starring Chace Crawford,Emma Roberts, and 50 Cent.Praise for Twelve'As fast as speed, as relentless as acid' -- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times'The hype is all true' --Sunday Telegraph'Bret Easton Ellis territory.an extraordinary assured debut' --Harper & Queen'McDonell is an authentic talent and, long after the storms of hype have died away, his novel will endure as a snapshot of his generation' --Observer'Consistently brilliant. One of the most exciting new writers around' --Independent on Sunday'A brilliant satirical debut' --Time Out'A compulsive elegy to wasted, privileged youth, lives up to the hype. lean, elegant and bleakly witty' --Elle 244 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 9781843540724