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Nov 14, 1996 · Two teens fall in love with each other and heroin. Tar has reasons for running away from home that run deep and sour, whereas Gemma, with her middle-class roots firmly on show, has a deep-rooted lust for adventure. Their first hit brings bliss, the next despair.
Junk, known as Smack in the US, is a realistic novel for young adults, written by British author Melvin Burgess and published in 1996 by Andersen in the UK. Set on the streets of Bristol, England, it features two runaway teenagers who join a group of squatters, where they fall into heroin addiction and embrace anarchism.
Junk (Smack) by Melvin Burgess. Junk/Smack. “Everyone should read Junk.” — The Times. Authors Note. Junk won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children’s fiction award in 1997. There were howls of protest from the right wing press – especailly the Daily Mail.
May 1, 1999 · How do these teens come to run away from home? To be users? Addicts? As their stories intertwine and build, SMACK never lets up the pace. It is a book about people, families--real and those constructed by young people with no one to turn to but each other. SMACK is a book about a drug and the hold it can have.
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May 15, 1998 · With Smack, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for Fiction, Melvin Burgess brilliantly sketches a gradual descent into drug addiction. There is no preaching here, just the artful revelation of cold, hard facts.
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After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin. "Originally published in Great Britain in 1996"--T.p.verso. Carnegie Medal, 1996.
Dive deep into Melvin Burgess' Smack with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
