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Junk is a realistic novel about two runaway teenagers who become heroin addicts and anarchists in Bristol, England. It won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, but also faced criticism for its dark and controversial themes.
Jul 1, 2021 · ISBN: 9781783448456. Number of pages: 352. Weight: 281 g. Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm. MEDIA REVIEWS. "Everyone should read Junk." - The Times. "Melvin Burgess's ground-breaking Junk remains the best book about teenagers and drugs to this day" - Julia Eccleshare, Guardian Online.
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Apr 3, 2014 · She wants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, finally, you have to come down. Melvin Burgess’ most ambitious and complex novel is a vivid depiction of a group of teenagers in the grip of addiction. Told from multiple viewpoints, Junk is a powerful, unflinching novel about heroin. Once you take a hit, you will never be the same again.
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- Melvin Burgess
About the book. Junk is set in Bristol, where I lived myself for eight years in the late seventies and eighties. The book falls into two halves – the first part, where the main characters, Tar and Gemma, leave home and move to Bristol, where they meet up with some squatters, and the second part, where Tar and Gemma become become addicted to ...
Apr 24, 1997 · Buy Junk by Julia Eccleshare, Melvin Burgess from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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Jul 2, 2020 · Junk: 25th Anniversary Edition. Paperback – 2 July 2020. It was a love story. Me, Gemma and junk. I thought it was going to last forever. Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down. She wants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, finally, you have to come down.
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Nov 14, 1996 · Junk is the drugs book against which I judge all drugs books, and so far nothing’s come close to matching Melvin Burgess’s unflinching portrayal of Bristol’s City Road in the 1980s through a heroin-addled lens. Burgess has no time for either hushed, poetic contemplations on heroin or clumsy, moralistic incitements to Just Say No.