Status Zero by Roger Granelli
Mark's fifteen. His friends call him Psycho. He hates school and has a burgeoning career in house-breaking. His dad left when he was just a kid, and now he's stuck on a mountain-top estate with the worst reputation in Wales. His best mate Daniels - if you can call him a mate - sniffs glue. Emma's always hanging round trying to straighten him out, and now his Mum's got a bun in the oven and rat-faced Humphries - the father - has scarpered. Just when Mark thought things couldn't get any worse they promptly do. Is there any hope when the police come knocking and Mark is swallowed by the young offenders system? The recriminations, the child psychologists, the screws, a family crisis: it all feels too much for a young loner like Mark. There's no escape. Or is there? Status Zero is the story of an adolescent starting from a perilous position in a society which couldn't give a shit. Provocative, moving, it is also the story of a boy becoming a man, challenged by responsibilities the action films don't tell you about. Roger Granelli is a musician and writer. He is the author of five novels, including Crystal Spirit, Dark Edge and Resolution.
Granelli, Roger: - Roger Granelli has published five novels - Crystal Spirit, set in Wales in the 1930s and Spain during the Spanish Civil War, Out Of Nowhere, a tale of murder and jazz in the USA, Dark Edge, which charts the enmity between brothers on opposite sides of the Miners' Strike of the 1980s, Status Zero, which features the rites of passage of Mark Richards, a young man at odds with the world, and Resolution, a subtle and compelling examination of human motives and desires, crossing and re-crossing the lines between love and hate, friendship and passion.Roger has been the recipient of three writing awards from the Welsh Arts Council, was a prize Winner in the 1999 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition, and has had numerous short stories published in literary magazines, some of which have been broadcast on BBC Radio. He is also a professional musician and composer, working in the UK, Europe and America for many years. He is currently teaching music in his home town of Pontypridd.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781854112552 |
| ISBN 10 | 1854112554 |
| Title | Status Zero |
| Author | Roger Granelli |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Poetry Wales Press |
| Year published | 1999-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 180 |
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