Special
Market worth: ₹ 330
Book Condition: Pre Loved
Description
Special
A group of teenage schoolgirls are on a field trip to the Forest of Dean. Vain, spoilt and interested primarily in sex, alcohol and outfits, the girls squabble and smoke, skive and bitch, torment their teachers and betray their friends, and the reader bears witness to the development and disintegration of relationships. So far, so typical. But this world of teenagers is a hall of mirrors, where the everyday can become monstrous, and nothing is quite what you expect. Soon enough something dark and sinister begins to move underneath the surface. Special is a work of brilliance and insight. At times its like reading an anthropological text on a strange, distant tribe, while at others it feels uncomfortably familiar - but I have to say Ive never come across a book that makes me so glad to be grown-up Daily Telegraph Sinister and menacing Patricia Duncker, Books of 2002, New Statesman A brilliant and disturbing take on underoccupied teenage girls Maggie OFarrell, Books of 2002, Observer
Details
Title | Special |
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Author | Bella Bathurst |
ISBN-13 | 9780330491013 |
ISBN-10 | 0330491013 |
Publisher | Picador USA |
Language | English |
Edition | NA |
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Height | 198 mm |
Width | 129 mm |
Thickness | 18 mm |
Binding | Paperback |
Pages | 0 |