My Side of the Story
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- 8,49 €
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- 8,49 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
So what if your parents hate each other and want you to have therapy?
So what if your holier-than-thou sister (aka The Nun) and her posse have decided you're going to hell?
So what if the school tyrant and his goons are hunting you down, or if your best friend has just outed you to a neo-Nazi?
Jaz isn't planning to lose any sleep over it - at least until he meets the guy of his dreams at the local gay bar. Suddenly things are a lot more complicated ...
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A troubled gay British teenager navigates the barbarity of adolescence in Davis's middling debut. It begins when 16-year-old Jazz's sister, "the nun," rats on him for sneaking out and going to gay bars. His overbearing mother freaks out, and family therapy soon follows, providing plenty of material for the quick-witted, self-hating narrator. Jazz, of course, continues carousing and eventually runs away. The escape is short-lived, and troubles at home and with bullies at school worsen, though it appears most of Jazz's problems aren't rooted in his sexuality but in his misanthropic attitude, which, though clearly an emotional feint, lacks nuance. The narration-rendered in a snotty teen argot (expect the abuse of "like")-will alienate as many readers as it hooks, and though much happens, little is resolved by novel's end.
