The award-winning author Melvin Burgess's ribald and insightful account of contemporary teenage life chronicles the ups and downs of doing it. The controversial book on which the cult favorite ABC television series "Life As We Know It "(now available on DVD) was based, "Doing It "introduces us to Dino, Jon, and Ben, three teenage best friends who can't stop thinking about, and talking about (and hoping to experience) sex.
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Biographie de l'auteur :
Melvin Burgess was born in London in 1954 and was brought up in Sussex and Surrey. Described by The Times as 'a new and powerful talent', he is now regarded as one of the best writers of contemporary children's and teenage literature. Junk won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Carnegie Medal. It was also shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year. Four of his novels have been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. His recent novel, Bloodtide, won the Lancashire Children's Book Award. Melvin Burgess writes full time and lives in Manchester.
Revue de presse :
"The current king of this genre" (The Times)
"Funny, honest and touching with engagingly mixed-up protagonists... realistic, but utterly uncynical" (Observer)
"A genuinely moral work of fiction about a subject - the confusions, joys and terrors of adolescent male sexuality - rarely addressed with any such comprehension or sympathy" (Evening Standard)
"Filth, which ever way you look at it" (Anne Fine)
"Refreshingly realistic and unsentimental approach to sex" (Time Out)
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- ÉditeurSquare Fish
- Date d'édition2012
- ISBN 10 0312551355
- ISBN 13 9780312551353
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages326
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