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May, Stephen

 
9781910836484: Tag

Synopsis


Longlisted for Wales Book of the Year, 2009
Winner of the Media Wales People's Choice Award, 2009


Precocious, promiscuous and furiously bright, fifteen year old Mistyann is selected to attend a week's course in Wales with a leading American educational guru. Knowing that her struggling, alcoholic mother is unlikely to sign the permission form, Mistyann signs it herself. The female teacher who is supposed to be escorting her drops out at the last minute and is replaced by Jon Diamond, a forty-one year old Advanced Skills teacher and recovered addict. It is, of course, a recipe for disaster, but one that develops in dramatic and unpredictable ways.

With a vivid and memorable cast of characters, TAG is a cracking story which also has important things to say about youth; about middle age; about what it means to be considered gifted. This acclaimed debut novel introduced Stephen May as a fresh new voice that can skips lightly even when the worlds he inhabits get very dark.

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À propos de l'auteur

A former barman, warehouseman, museum attendant, low level council worker and teacher, Stephen May didn't begin writing seriously until his 40s. The highly praised Tag <>was his first novel and has been followed by Life! Death! Prizes! (shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award as well as The Guardian's Not The Booker Prize) and Wake Up Happy Every Day. Raised in Bedford he now lives and works in West Yorkshire.

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