Ten Thousand Saints
Vermont, New Year's Eve, 1987. All Jude wants to do is get high. All Teddy wants to do is get out. One of them won't live to see 1988. In the wake of this death, three teenagers will try to find a way of honouring their lost friend and family member. Is clean living the answer? Is parenthood? Or...
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Vermont, New Year's Eve, 1987. All Jude wants to do is get high. All Teddy wants to do is get out. One of them won't live to see 1988. In the wake of this death, three teenagers will try to find a way of honouring their lost friend and family member. Is clean living the answer? Is parenthood? Or the simplicity of carrying out a last wish?
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Format: kindle
ISBN:
9781780872186
Publish date: March 29th 2012
Publisher: Quercus
Pages no: 399
Edition language: English
I abandoned this at 50 pages. I wasn't enjoy the tone of the story and could not relate to the characters or the content. If you like stories about young kids drug addict parents, no prospects who spend their day wandering aimlessly and taking drugs, then you might like this book.
You’ve been punked. There are few halos in view in this ensemble coming-of-age tale. Sixteen-year-old Jude Keffy-Horn, named for the saint of lost causes, and maybe a Beatles song, is a lost soul of a teenager. He lives a fairly meaningless existence in Lintonberg, Vermont (by which we mean Burlingt...
Wow-I loved this book!! From the first page to the last I was completely sucked in and couldn't wait to get back to these characters and their world. Touching on the straight edge/hardcore scene in New York in the late 1980's this novel gave you a glimpse of what the kid's of the hippies may have ...
Wow-I loved this book!! From the first page to the last I was completely sucked in and couldn't wait to get back to these characters and their world. Touching on the straight edge/hardcore scene in New York in the late 1980's this novel gave you a glimpse of what the kid's of the hippies may have ...
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