Habt zusammenfassung buch twelve nick mcdonell englisch

“As fast as speed, as relentless as acid.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Creating a sensation around the world, Twelve established its seventeen-year-old author as a powerful voice of the new millennium. Set among the privileged prep-school students of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Twelve follows White Mike, a dropout drug dealer, through the week between Christmas and New Year’s 1999. Twelve is not a coming-of-age story, because its kids never had a childhood. From page one, the pace is set toward an apocalyptic climax—there is an excess of everything but hope, we are filled with that very emotion as White Mike struggles for nothing less than his soul. Twelve is “a beautifully tragic and unsettling story. a reminder of how engrossing a character-driven novel can, and should, be”