num_pages: 244
description: Creating a sensation around the world when it was first published, Twelve established it’s seventeen-year-old author as a powerful voice of the new millennium. The chilling novel follows prep school dropout White Mike through the week between Christmas and New Year’s 1999, as he takes a year off to deal an alluring new drug to his privileged peers on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. But Twelve is not a coming-of-age story, because its kids never had a childhood—their parents are off on holiday in Bali or business in Brussels, leaving hired help to look the other way as the kids stay home alone in their multimillion-dollar town houses, partying with drugs and sex and, in the end, much worse.
language: English
title: Twelve
titlecomplete: Twelve
genres: Thriller, Fiction, Contemporary, Coming Of Age, The United States Of America, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Crime, Novels
ratings_count: 4116
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Grove Press