Junk - Melvin Burgess • BookLikes (ISBN:0140380191)

Junk

by: Melvin Burgess (author)

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Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down--not to anyone or anything. Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, somehow, finally, you have to come down.

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Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780140380194 (0140380191)

Publish date: 1997

Publisher: Penguin

Pages no: 328

Edition language: English

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Young Adult, Childrens, Teen, Academic, European Literature, British Literature, Read For School, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Middle Grade, Contemporary, High School

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14 years ago

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I was up a goodly portion of the night reading this book. I didn't mean to be. It's that kind of book, though. Stark, brilliant and uncompromising, this is the story of a couple of kids who find a life less ordinary in the squats of early 1980s England. They also find heroin and love, though they ha...

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Coffee Bean Bookshelf rated it

15 years ago

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This book was interesting in that it told the story from the point of view of different characters - most of whom were addicted to heroine. They led a hard life, having to live on the streets, and the girls eventually started "on the game" to feed their addiction.But I think the same subject was ap...

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