Junk
Author(s): Melvin Burgess
This is the love story of two runaway teenagers, Gemma and Tar, and their struggles with heroin addiction. Melvin Burgess' most ambitious and complex novel is a multi-faceted and vivid depiction of a group of young people in the grip of addiction. It is told in many different voices, from the addicts themselves to the friends watching from the outside who try to prevent tragedy. It is the winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
Product Information
This Carnegie and Guardian Fiction award-winning classic teen novel gets a vibrant new look.
"Everyone should read Junk." The Times "Melvin Burgess's ground-breaking Junk remains the best book about teenagers and drugs to this day" Julia Eccleshare, Guardian Online "Occasionally a 'teenage novel' comes along which makes one reconsider the whole genre and its potential. Such a book is Melvin Burgess's Junk." -- Robert Dunbar Children's Books in Ireland "Brilliantly and sensitively written, it encompasses the raw, savage and ecstatic world of the adolescent mind... a superbly crafted and important book" TES "Beautifully written" The Times
General Fields
- :
- : Andersen Press Ltd
- : Andersen Press Ltd
- : 0.276
- : 01 April 2014
- : 198mm X 129mm X 21mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 June 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : Melvin Burgess
- : 336
- : 823.92
- : NE
- : Paperback
