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Burgess, Melvin

Smack

327 pp. | Holt | January, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-8050-5801-X
(4) YA Fourteen-year-old runaways Gemma and Tar become heroin addicts in this award-winning novel, published in Britain as 'Junk'. Establishing the 1980s Bristol setting--squatters, anarchists, punks--takes precedence over the story for too long, and 'Go Ask Alice' junkies looking for a quick fix won't stick it out long enough. Disappointingly, 'Smack' fails to score a hit.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

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