Name: Boy A von Jonathan Trigell
SKU: 9781852428594
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Boy A Zusammenfassung

Boy A Jonathan Trigell

WINNER OF THE WORLD BOOK DAY - BOOKS TO TALK ABOUT PRIZE 2008 WINNER OF THE JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS PRIZE 2005 WINNER OF THE WAVERTON GOOD READ PRIZE 2005 ?A is for Apple. A bad apple.? A man walks alongside a teenager called Jack. Nobody would suspect anything out of the ordinary. Unless they knew that Jack had chosen his own name from The Big Book of Boys? Names, or that he shed his old name along with his old life ? or tried to. Jack has spent most of his young life in juvenile prison institutions. At 24, he is utterly innocent of the world, yet guilty of a monstrous childhood crime. How guilty? Who was the boy who committed that crime, and is he the same person who can now survive only by hiding his real identity? To his new friends, he is a nice young man with occasional flashes of unexplained violence and fear. To his girlfriend, he is mysterious and strangely inexperienced. To an invisible lynchmob, he is someone to be closely watched and ultimately punished. And to himself, Jack is on permanent trial: can he make it? Can a person really start from scratch, forget the past, become someone else? Is a new name enough? Does he have a right to forget his own childhood, having taken someone else?s? This searing and heartfelt novel perfectly captures Jack?s bewilderment and exhilaration as he approaches adulthood in his new world and the effect on him and those around him of media manipulated hysteria. Boy A is a devastating indictment of society?s attempt to rehabilitate such children, while treating them as a species apart.

Boy A Bewertungen

Creepy and involving... From the beginning, Trigell weaves a sense of drama and a disturbing feeling of inevitability * Independent *
Trigell brilliantly depicts the pressures of living with a terrible secret... written with a naive clarity which evokes the unfamiliar wonders of the outside world * Guardian *
A fine and moving debut novel... Harrowing at times, this compulsively readable novel is more optimistic than it sounds... a rare treat * Independent *
Eerie parallels to the Bulger case abound in this modern day immorality tale about the attempted rehabilitation of a child implicated in murder... delivered with a horrific sense of foreboding * Arena *
A shocker of a first novel... told with extraordinary restraint * New York Times *
Grim reading to be sure, but you turn the final page with real sympathy for a child-killer - which is a frankly amazing achievement from young Mr Trigell * FHM *
A challenging novel of atrocity and redemption... [A] fast-paced, thought provoking read, perhaps all the more significant for the questions it can't answer * Big Issue *
A thought-provoking commentary on human nature... A gripping and disturbing read, Boy A is a carefully cultivated work that challenges readers while also being entirely gripping * Good Book Guide *
Jonathan Trigell's striking debut, Boy A, at times cuts too close, but its that same in-your-face, relentless pursuit of personal salvation that makes it so intriguing. Without sugarcoating its darker side, Boy A lives up to its stark initial promise all the way through to its conclusion * Pages *
Trigell masterfully builds sympathy for Jack * Entertainment Weekly *
The book bristles with issues of personal responsibility, social justice and the reformative value of prison life. It would give reading groups much to ponder over * New Books Mag *
The conclusion of this novel ensures it remains a genuine page-turner to the last * Big Issue in the North *
[A] searing and heartfelt novel... Excellent * Buzz *
A singularly powerful novel... A disturbing yet gripping story that explores both moral and practical questions, as well as the horrific negative repurcussions of media hysteria * Midwest Book Review *
This debut by Trigell is ultra-stylish and just dark enough, dealing with a difficult subject without plastering on the rose-tint. Boy A deserves recognition as a formidable and engrossing read * BookMunch *
Trying to readjust to a society he was never familiar with, the journey winds through the moral undertones of forgoing the bitterness of the past and the dexterity of self reconstruction * Pulp *
This was a fascinating novel and really challenged my perceptions and prejudices * Northwich Mail *
A compelling narrative, a beautifully structured piece of writing, and a thought-provoking novel of ideas. It's a wonderful debut * Manchester Unilife *

Über Jonathan Trigell

Jonathan Trigell was born in 1974 and has lived in Hertfordshire, Manchester, Derby and Stone. In 2002 he completed an MA in creative writing at Manchester University. He has been a TV extra, an outdoor pursuits instructor and a door to door salesman; plus has worked right across the winter sports industry, from mopping floors and washing dishes to journalism and organising major events. His first novel, Boy A, won the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for best work by an author under 35, and also the Waverton Award, for best first novel of 2004. Jonathan now lives in Chamonix, where he is writing his third novel, Genesis.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR011272510

ISBN 13

9781852428594

ISBN 10

1852428597

Titel

Boy A Jonathan Trigell

Autor

Jonathan Trigell

Zustand

Gebraucht - Wie Neu

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Profile Books Ltd

Datum

20040429

Anzahl der Seiten

256

Preise

Winner of John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2004 (UK)

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