Smack by Melvin Burgess

Smack by Melvin Burgess

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Smack by Melvin Burgess

I can give it up any time I want . . .

Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space. This time it was Lily and Rob and Gemma spending all that time to make me feel one of them, but it was the drug too. All that crap--about Gemma leaving me, about Mum and Dad, about leaving home. All that negative stuff. All the pain . . .
It just floated away from me, I just floated away from it . . . up and away . . .
I leaned back and I looked at the book and I looked at them and Gemma smiled at me, a big soft smile, and her eyes were like marbles.
Better? she said.

Smack is the winner of the 1996 Carnegie Medal in Literature.
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780312608620
ISBN 10 0312608624
Title Smack
Author Melvin Burgess
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher St Martin's Press
Year published 2010-06-08
Number of pages 352
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.