APPLES
Book ID/图书代码： 04560006B02458
English Summary/英文概要： We got a McDonald’s the night my mam got lung cancer.
Growing up on a Middlesbrough council estate, Eve finds herself dealing increasingly with sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates, and now, her mother’s cancer. Trying her best to distract herself from the difficulties unravelling at home, her 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 resembling OCD, he begins to obsess over Eve. But 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’. Funny, moving, tragic and wise, it’s a breathtakingly impressive first novel from an author with a unique and sympathetic voice.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 夏娃Eva是個在國宅長大的女孩，成長過程中除了應付心懷不軌男子及不懷好意的同學外，現在必須為母親的癌症所煩擾。她盡力使自己逃離家裡的問題，但卻被一夜情、藥物等所迷惑了。而亞當Adam這位迷戀夏娃的男孩，所面對的卻是和異性相處的挫折、暴力傾向的父親及自己逐漸嚴重的精神強迫症。本書是部探討青少年成長過程中所面臨的困難及其心聲的真實小說。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Richard Milward生於英國北約克郡的吉斯伯勒(Guisborough, North Yorks)，目前仍就讀於聖馬丁藝術學院，因為讀了歐文‧威爾許(Irvine Wwlsh)的《猜火車》(Trainspotting)讓他開啟寫作之門，傑克‧凱魯亞克(Jack Kerouac)、理查‧布羅提根(Richard Brautigan)、亨特‧湯普森(Hunter S Thompson)則是影響最深的三位作家。而Apples是他的首部作品。
He was raised and schooled in Guisborough, North Yorks and now studies at Byam Shaw at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. He cites Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh as the book that made him want to write and Jack Kerouac, Richard Brautigan and Hunter S. Thompson as his main influences. As with fellow Teesside-raised writer Michael Smith, he writes a column for Dazed & Confused magazine.
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