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Junk

Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down - not to anyone or anything. Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, somehow, finally you have to come down. Commissioned and produced by Oxford Stage Company, Junk premiered at The Castle, Wellingborough, in January 1998 and went on to tour throughout the UK in 1998 and 1999. "John Retallack's excellent adaptation of Melvin Burgess's controversial Carnegie Medal winning novel is splendidly unpatronising ... a truly cautionary tale" (Independent).

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  • "Everything is free. That's the secret. The only thing that isn't free is you. You do as you're told. Maybe that's the way you like it. It's easy. It's all there. You don't have to think about it. You don't even have to feel it. I sometimes wonder how this planet keeps on sticking to my feet. They did everything they could to pin me down ..."
  • "Twee veertienjarigen lopen in de jaren tachtig van huis weg en raken in Bristol verslaafd aan de heroïne; het kost hen waanzinnig veel moeite om af te kicken."
  • ""Non è mai facile avere quattordici anni. Le difficoltà della vita sembrano insormontabili, il futuro così lontano e incerto... A volte per lasciarsi alle spalle una realtà dolorosa e insostenibile la fuga sembra l'unica soluzione. È il caso di Tar, che con Gemma decide di scappare da una casa di genitori violenti e alcolizzati, e di adattarsi a vivere per strada e in case occupate. Ma c'è anche un altro tipo di fuga, che promette ancor più di allontanare problemi e sofferenze, sollevare corpi troppo pesanti per giovani anime che aspirano alla leggerezza: l'eroina. E Tar e Gemma, insieme, scopriranno l'altra faccia di una droga che, impietosa, annulla e cancella personalità, dignità ed emozioni. Un romanzo di formazione crudo, vero e profondo, ma anche una storia di rinascita e riscatto, di scelte coraggiose per liberarsi dalla dipendenza e di un nuovo, seppur difficile, inizio. Un commovente diario a più mani, un grido di amore e di forza lanciato a lacerare il silenzio che circonda il mondo dell'adolescenza interrotta.' -- cover flap."
  • "YA. Issues. Gemma runs away from home to join her boyfriend, Tar in London. Soon they find themselves hooked on heroin and Gemma is forced into prostitution to pay for the drug. This is an uncompromising, compelling and true-to-life story of two teenagers drawn into the dangerous and destructive world of heroin addiction. This tour de force by an acclaimed and provocative writer should become a definitive teenage novel on this subject."
  • "La vie de galère de deux adolescents anglais, Gemma et Nico, vivant non loin de Bristol, dans une petite ville touristique. Un portrait sur fond de drogue et de chômage."
  • "Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, somehow, finally, you have to come down."
  • "Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down - not to anyone or anything. Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, somehow, finally you have to come down. Commissioned and produced by Oxford Stage Company, Junk premiered at The Castle, Wellingborough, in January 1998 and went on to tour throughout the UK in 1998 and 1999. "John Retallack's excellent adaptation of Melvin Burgess's controversial Carnegie Medal winning novel is splendidly unpatronising ... a truly cautionary tale" (Independent)."@en
  • "Tar und Gemma halten es zu Hause einfach nicht mehr aus und hauen ab, um endlich ein Stück vom Leben abzukriegen. In Bristol kommen sie bei Hausbesetzern unter und geniessen ihre Freiheit. Bis eines Tages Lily und Rob auftauchen, zwei Junkies, die auf harten Drogen sind. Auch Tar und Gemma werden abhängig. Bald wird ihr Alltag nur noch davon bestimmt, Geld für den Stoff aufzutreiben. Und sie lügen sich vor, dass sie alles unter Kontrolle haben, dass sie jederzeit aufhören können. Aber es gelingt es ihnen erst nach vielen Rückschlägen, sich von ihrer Abhängigkeit zu befreien. (Quelle: http://www.lehrer.fischerverlage.de/page/mittelstufe 25.08.2010)."
  • "The story of a group of young people addicted to drugs told in many different voices, from the addicts themselves to the people around them."@en
  • "The story of a group of young people addicted to drugs told in many different voices, from the addicts themselves to the people around them."
  • "Gemma en Teer (beiden 14) lopen in de jaren tachtig van huis weg en raken in Bristol verslaafd aan de heroïne. Het kost hen waanzinnig veel moeite om af te kicken. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar."
  • "Tells, in the voices of many individuals, of two fourteen-year-old runaways in Bristol, England, who find a home with anarchists and get involved in vandalism, shoplifting, and prostitution to support their growing addiction to heroin."
  • "Tells, in the voices of many individuals, of two fourteen-year-old runaways in Bristol, England, who find a home with anarchists and get involved in vandalism, shoplifting, and prostitution to support their growing addiction to heroin."@en
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  • "Tells, in the voices of many individuals, of two fourteen-year-old runaways in Bristol, England, who find a home with anarchists and get iinvolved in vandalism, shoplifting, and prostitution to support their growing addiction to heroin."@en

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  • "Kinderverhalen (teksten)"
  • "Translations"
  • "Literatura angielska dla młodzieży"@pl
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "English fiction"
  • "Jugendbücher ab 12 Jahre"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Jugendbuch"
  • "Sociological"
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "Juvenile works"
  • "Young adult fiction"@en
  • "Young adult fiction"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Social Issues"@en
  • "Young adult works"@en
  • "Young adult works"

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  • "Ke yao = Junk"
  • "Junkies"
  • "Durʹ"
  • "Junk"@da
  • "Junk"@en
  • "Junk"
  • "Junk"@it
  • "Junk Adapted for the stage"@en
  • "Hors"
  • "Yonqui"@es
  • "Yonqui"
  • "Herák : prevence proti drogovému pokušení vašich dětí : příběh bez planého moralizování"
  • "嗑藥 = Junk"
  • "嗑藥"
  • "Storia d'amore e perdizione"@it
  • "Lonqui"
  • "Ćpun"
  • "Ćpun"@pl
  • "Ke yao"
  • "Storia d'amore e perdizione : romanzo"@it
  • "Storia d'amore e perdizione : romanzo"
  • "Hepo"@fi
  • "Džank"

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