Twelve

“As fast as speed, as relentless as acid.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Nick McDonell is the real thing, a powerful young writer with the look of a dangerous freak and very sharp teeth. The ratio of age to talent is horrifying. His trick is he writes the truth. I'm afraid he will do for his generation what I did for mine."—Hunter S. Thompson

“An astonishing rush of a first novel, all heat and ice and inexorable narrative drive…A pleasure to read, a horror to contemplate, a real achievement.” –Joan Didion

“McDonell is an authentic talent…His novel will endure as a snapshot of his generation as surely as Less Than Zero did of the eighties.” –Stephanie Merritt, The Observer (London)

“[McDonell] renders Manhattan’s cosseted Upper East Side with both the casual authority of an insider and the wry distance of an observer….Impressive.” –Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Book Review

“McDonell, like the young Jim Caroll, displays a frightening acuity in his astonishing debut.” –Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair