The hungrily awaited paperback of Nick McDonell's sensational best-seller.
Twelve has been adapted for film by Hollywood director Joel Schumacher starring Chace Crawford,
Emma Roberts, and 50 Cent.
Nick McDonell's electrifying novel tells the story of a fictional drug called Twelve and its devastating effects on the beautiful rich and desperate poor of New York City. A bleak Manhattan midwinter and a group of wealthy teenagers, left to their own devices by disregarding parents, delve into the excesses of drugs, sex and the most chilling acts of violence imaginable. Hunter ----- falsely accused of murder after a fight on the basketball courts; White Mike - a straight-A student who makes a fortune selling illegal substances; Laura - gorgeous but obsessed with a fabulous new designer drug called 'twelve'; and Claude - whose trips into the shadier corners of Chinatown have fuelled a macabre fascination with deadly weapons...From page one, this novel pulsates towards its apocalyptic climax. Cool and cruel and utterly compulsive, TWELVE is the debut novel of 2002.
Atlantic Books superlead. 50,000-copy first printing. $30,000 advertising budget. 20,000 copies sold in trade paperback - outstanding for a debut novel. "McDonnell is an authentic talent, and long after the storms of hype have died away, his novel will endure as a snapshot of his generation" Observer.
Nick McDonell is eighteen years old and was born in New York City. He attends HarvardUniversity.
'Consistently brilliant. Every subtle, thought-provoking poetic moment in this novel fits on top of the last, creating a narrative as precarious and complex as a tower of building blocks. But this tower doesn't fall... One of the most exciting new writers around' -- Scarlett Thomas * Independent on Sunday *
'A small masterpiece' -- Germaine Greer * BBC Newsnight Review *
Nick McDonell is the real thing... I'm afraid that he will do for his generation what I did for mine. * Hunter S. Thompson *
'Twelve is sleek, seductive, tightens like a vice' * Uncut *
In B format, in a new livery, the hungrily awaited paperback of Nick McDonell's sensational best-seller, 'as fast as speed, as relentless as acid'(Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)
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