Doing It - Softcover

Burgess, Melvin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783440635 ISBN 13: 9781783440634

Publisher: Andersen Press, 2014

Synopsis

Dino's girlfriend won't give him what he wants. Jonathon is afraid of what his mates will think of the girl he likes. And Ben is having extra lessons from his sexy teacher. Three seventeen-year-old boys discover sex for the first time: but do they really know what they’re doing?

About this title

Review:

In Doing It Melvin Burgess has written what is potentially the most controversial young adult novel ever. It's an honest and funny book about three teenage British boys learning about themselves and life through their sexual experiences. But here's the catch: the story is told from the point of view of the hormone-sodden young males, naughty bits and all.

Gorgeous Dino thinks that equally gorgeous Allie should realise that they belong together and is puzzled and frustrated when their passionate lovemaking always ends with her refusing him. Jonathan fancies sensible, sexy Deborah but can't admit it to his friends, even after several steamy grope sessions, because she is...well...plump. And Ben is living every teenage boy's dream, an affair with a lusty teacher--but somehow it's getting to be too much of a good thing. Nearly all young adult novels about love and sexuality are told by and for girls: the perspective of this book will be educational for female readers. --Patty Campbell, Amazon.com

Review:

"The current king of this genre" (The Times)

"Funny, honest and touching with engagingly mixed-up protagonists... realistic, but utterly uncynical" (Observer)

"A genuinely moral work of fiction about a subject - the confusions, joys and terrors of adolescent male sexuality - rarely addressed with any such comprehension or sympathy" (Evening Standard)

"Filth, which ever way you look at it" (Anne Fine)

"Refreshingly realistic and unsentimental approach to sex" (Time Out)

"The current king of this genre"

"Funny, honest and touching with engagingly mixed-up protagonists... realistic, but utterly uncynical"

"A genuinely moral work of fiction about a subject - the confusions, joys and terrors of adolescent male sexuality - rarely addressed with any such comprehension or sympathy"

"Filth, which ever way you look at it"

"Refreshingly realistic and unsentimental approach to sex"

About this edition

• Publisher: Andersen Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1783440635
• ISBN 13: 9781783440634
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336