Grow Up
A Novel
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4.0 • 6 Ratings
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
In this bawdy, raucous, and unabashedly frank novel, youth is certainly not wasted on the young
Hailed as "one of the most hilarious and well-observed accounts of teenage debauchery you are ever likely to read" by the trendsetting British lifestyle magazine Dazed & Confused, Ben Brooks's Grow Up is a shocking, stylish, and very modern coming-of-age story.
As Jasper J. Wolf careens through high school, his list of to-dos includes: get high with friends, seduce the hottest girl in school, and, last but not least, expose his stepfather as a murderer. But as growing up soon teaches him, what he wants and what he gets are often wildly different—and decidedly unexpected.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Brooks's latest (after Fences) follows British teen and aspiring novelist Jasper James Wolf in his post-ironic and frequently post-literate quest to pass his O-levels, peg his stepfather as a murderer, and have sex with unattainable classmate Georgia Treely. While pining for Georgia, pretty much anyone or anything will do even, in one unfortunately memorable instance, his stepfather's golf sock. Jasper so young, so bored, so boring spends his time pretending to study for his university entrance exams, getting high on various drugs, and having sex with sometimes unwilling women. After he confesses to having drugged and subsequently seduced a classmate, his best friend, Tenaya, gallantly reassures him: "That sounds like most of the sex most teenage girls ever have." But Brooks's greatest offense isn't tastelessness; it's dullness. Jasper's antics are funny for the first 30 pages, but there isn't enough plot development to propel us to the realization he comes to on the last page (and which the discerning reader will surmise almost immediately). Toward the end of this slog, Jasper declares, "I am Holden Caulfield, only less reckless and more attractive." Holden could spot a phony like this from a mile away.
Customer Reviews
For the best book ever.
One of the best or rather my personal best funny entertaining shame it just took me 3 days to finish it I wish I divided the pages... It was hilarious and the way that Ben put it out there is different, buy this book and if it isn't the best then I'll pay ur money back.