Like 'Catcher In The Rye' and 'Less Than Zero', 'Twelve' captures the soul of a generation. The debut novel of an eighteen-year-old author, it is a book for the new millennium, a chronicle of urban adolescence that has already created an international sensation.
Set in Manhattan between Christmas and New Year's Eve, it tells an inexorable tale that ranges from the housing project of Harlem to the penthouses of Park Avenue. McDonell introduces us to White Mike, a seventeen-year-old drug dealer, and the kids he encounters - Chris and Claude and Hunter and Jessica with their lives of extraordinary privilege. The story he tells is unputdownable. And just when we think nothing can surprise us, 'Twelve' races to a shocking finale.
