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Boy A
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Description: Winner OF THE World BOOK DAY - Books TO TALK About Prize 2008 Winner OF THE JOHN Llewellyn RHYS Prize 2005 Winner OF THE Waverton GOOD READ Prize 2005 ? A is for Apple. A bad apple. ? Jack has spent most of his life in juvenile institutions to be released with a new name new job new life. At 24, he is utterly innocent of the world yet guilty of a monstrous childhood crime. To his new friends he is a good guy with occasional flashes of unexpected violence. To his new girlfriend he is strangely inexperienced and unreachable. To his case worker he?'s a victim of the system and of media - driven hysteria. And to himself Jack is on permanent trial: can he really start from scratch forget the past become someone else? Is a new name enough? Can Jack ever truly connect with his new friends while hiding a monstrous secret? This searing and heartfelt novel is a devastating indictment of society?'s inability to reconcile childhood innocence with reality.
Title: Boy A
Author(s): Trigell Jonathan
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781846686627
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 4/1/2008
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: Winner OF THE World BOOK DAY - Books TO TALK About Prize 2008 Winner OF THE JOHN Llewellyn RHYS Prize 2005 Winner OF THE Waverton GOOD READ Prize 2005 ? A is for Apple. A bad apple. ? Jack has spent most of his life in juvenile institutions to be released with a new name new job new life. At 24, he is utterly innocent of the world yet guilty of a monstrous childhood crime. To his new friends he is a good guy with occasional flashes of unexpected violence. To his new girlfriend he is strangely inexperienced and unreachable. To his case worker he?'s a victim of the system and of media - driven hysteria. And to himself Jack is on permanent trial: can he really start from scratch forget the past become someone else? Is a new name enough? Can Jack ever truly connect with his new friends while hiding a monstrous secret? This searing and heartfelt novel is a devastating indictment of society?'s inability to reconcile childhood innocence with reality.
Title: Boy A
Author(s): Trigell Jonathan
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781846686627
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 4/1/2008
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction