Grow Up
Autor Ben Brooksen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2012 – vârsta de la 18 ani
In this bawdy, raucous, and unabashedly frank novel, youth is certainly not wasted on the young
Hailed as "one of the most hilarious and well-observed accounts of teenage debauchery you are ever likely to read" by the trendsetting British lifestyle magazine Dazed & Confused, Ben Brooks's Grow Up is a shocking, stylish, and very modern coming-of-age story.
As Jasper J. Wolf careens through high school, his list of to-dos includes: get high with friends, seduce the hottest girl in school, and, last but not least, expose his stepfather as a murderer. But as growing up soon teaches him, what he wants and what he gets are often wildly different—and decidedly unexpected.
Hailed as "one of the most hilarious and well-observed accounts of teenage debauchery you are ever likely to read" by the trendsetting British lifestyle magazine Dazed & Confused, Ben Brooks's Grow Up is a shocking, stylish, and very modern coming-of-age story.
As Jasper J. Wolf careens through high school, his list of to-dos includes: get high with friends, seduce the hottest girl in school, and, last but not least, expose his stepfather as a murderer. But as growing up soon teaches him, what he wants and what he gets are often wildly different—and decidedly unexpected.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780143121091
ISBN-10: 014312109X
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 129 x 195 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
ISBN-10: 014312109X
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 129 x 195 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
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“Eminently readable… Hyperߝself-aware…Filled with black humor and fleeting tenderness… Its protagonist, Jasper J. Wolf, imagines himself as a prettier Holden Caulfield, but the end game reveals that the self-reflective young writer is more along the lines of a John Hughes hero, albeit with volumes more narcotics…There’s a timeless if caustic quality to [narrator] Jasper’s minimalist rants [and] there’s an unexpected humor even to the murkiest sequences. Brooks’ work feels richer [than] the transgressive teen drama Skins…as it explores generational angst and the blue-black damage of adolescence.”
“Engaging, funny and sharply-written. I loved how [Grow Up] manages to be both brutally uncompromising and gloriously warm-hearted.”
“Ben Brooks is a magical imp who pumps out dark nuggets of poetry and makes you snort with laughter.”
“Sickeningly good. So confident, so stylish. An unacceptably witty and original debut.”
“Liquid Gold.”
“I thought [Grow Up] was amazing. One of the most hilarious and well observed accounts of teenage debauchery you are ever likely to read….Alarmingly good. Jasper is great fun, naively perceptive, often LOL-funny company. A totally convincing portrait of being a wayward teenager now . . . It’s so pertinent it actually kind of trips you out.”
“Navigates the travails of school and beyond with a quick wit.”
“A sharp and witty exploration of adolescent life…Grow Up is one part serious, the rest is simply laugh-out loud funny….{Brooks] is able to deal with issues such as self-harm and suicide with a tenderness and sensitivity that one would have thought beyond his years….contagiously funny, well-written and no doubt marks the start of a promising career for a talented young writer.”
“Brilliantly captures 21st-century youth. Hilarious.”
“I couldn’t stop reading Grow Up.”
“Funny from unexpected places.”
“A dirty, dirty book. It is a wonderfully filthy book.”
“A vicious, often hilarious—and hilariously blunt—microcosm of contemporary, ketamine-addicted British youth.”
“An undeniably fun read, thanks to the leanness of its prose and its sense of humour, which is as sharp as it is affected. This is Oscar Wilde with a Tumblr account, or Martin Amis remixed by Skrillex.”
Notă biografică
Ben Brooks is the author of Fences, An Island of Fifty, and The Kasahara School of Nihilism. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He was born in 1992 and lives in Gloucestershire, England.
Descriere
Hilarious and heartbreaking by turns, "Grow Up" is the ultimate twenty-first-century coming of age novel. Funny and twisted, it is the story of one young man transformed and paints an unashamed portrait of the pills and thrills and bellyaches of growing up today.