Apples - Softcover

Milward, Richard

3.21

1,024 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571232825 ISBN 13: 9780571232826

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2007

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'We got a McDonald's the night my mam got lung cancer.'

As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates and her mother's cancer, Eve's eyes are opened to a multicolour life of one night stands, drug fuelled discos and endless varieties of cheap plonk. She barely has time to notice Adam. Adam, however, notices Eve. Whilst contending with sexual frustration, a violent father and increasingly compulsive behaviour, is he too busy reading Razzle in his bedroom to make his move?

Narrated alternately by Adam and Eve, alongside a cast of teenage delinquents, perverts and butterflies, Apples is an exploration of the difficulties of growing up, the complications of friendship, and the consequences of getting 'fucked as quick as you can'.

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Eve's eyes are opened to a multicolour life of one-night stands, drug-fuelled discos and endless varieties of cheap plonk. She barely has time to notice Adam. Adam, however, notices Eve. Whilst contending with sexual frustration, a violent father, and increasingly compulsive behaviour, is he too busy reading Razzle in his bedroom to make his move?

Review:

'A confident, no-holds-barred, and bizarrely optimistic story - a fairy tale with plenty of heart.' -- Sunday Business Post

'A wonderful take on amoral youth ... Apples is unlike any other novel I've read. Who knows? We may have discovered our J. D. Salinger early. ' -- Financial Times

'Apples is an astonishing debut ... Catcher in the Rye meets the Arctic Monkeys.' -- The Times Magazine

'Crass, graphic, funny and unnerving ... a frighteningly recognisable glimpse into a particular experience of adolescence.' -- Guardian

'Dazzling ... I loved Apples ... If I were an adolesent, I'd read and re-read [it] until it fell apart.'
-- www.thebookbag.co.uk

'Heartbreaking, honest and accurate ... a tough, explicit yet tender coming-of-age story.' -- thelondonpaper

'It's one of the best books I've ever read about being young, working-class and British.'
-- Irvine Welsh

'The moment I started reading I was hooked ... Milward writes with ferocious, infectious energy [and] sharp, black wit.' -- Mail on Sunday

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