Twelve
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
«Un puñetazo minimalista que radiografía sin moralina el no future de la generación post-11S de 2001. El hijo bastardo de Brett Easton Ellis y Douglas Coupland en noventa y siete polaroids y un epílogo que son como una glacial esquela mortuoria sobre los logros de la sociedad de la opulencia» (Juan Cervera, Rock de Lux)
White Mike no fuma, no bebe, no se droga, lee a Camus y a Nietzsche, y ha terminado el instituto. Era un buen estudiante, pero ahora lleva seis meses sin hacer nada. Entretanto, se ha convertido en un camello sumamente eficaz y está ganando una pequeña fortuna. Allí estarán los jovencísimos Mark Rothko y Timmy, que aspiran a ser gángsters. Y la muy guapa Sara Ludlow, la chica más popular de su universidad, ocupada en organizar fiestas para ser famosa. Y su amiga Jessica, menos guapa que Sara y bastante más torturada, adicta al Twelve, la nueva droga de diseño. Y Claude, que ha sustituido la adicción a la cocaína por la afición a las armas, que almacena en su dormitorio... Cada tantos años, aparece un autor muy joven, casi adolescente, que da cuenta de la entrada a la vida de su generación. Sucedió hace unos años con Menos que cero, de Bret Easton Ellis, y sucede ahora con Twelve, de Nick McDonell.
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"White Mike" dresses in an overcoat and lives with his dad on Manhattan's Upper East Side (his mom died of breast cancer not too long ago). The 17-year-old doesn't smoke, doesn't drink and doesn't do drugs. He dropped out of high school and now sells drugs pot and an Ecstasy-like upper called "twelve" to the city's moneyed teens. In this shocker of a first novel, McDonell who was 17 when he wrote it carries readers through White Mike's frantically spinning world, one alternately peopled with obscenely wealthy teenagers who live in gated townhouses with parents rarely in town and FUBU-clad basketball players in Harlem. In terse, controlled prose, McDonell describes five days in White Mike's life during Christmas break. He introduces a host of characters, ranging from Sara Ludlow ("the hottest girl at her school by, like, a lot") to Lionel ("a creepy dude" with "brown and yellow bloodshot eyes" who also sells drugs), writing mainly in the present tense, but sometimes flashing back in italics. His prose darts from one scene and character to the next, much like a cab zipping down city streets, halting quickly at a red light and then accelerating madly as soon as the light turns green. And although it brims with New York references e.g., the MetLife Building and Lenox Hill Hospital this is really a story about excess and its effects. The final scene, at a raging New Year's Eve party, will leave readers stunned, as well as curious as to what might come next from this precocious writer.
