When was junk written

A McCartney gem. Well done Paul. Beatle people. Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney songs. Recorded vocal, two acoustic guitars, and bass at home, and later added to bass drum, snare with brushes, and small xylophone and harmony at Morgan. Join the Fab Forum discussion on Junk ».

Latest Comments. Andy Friday 9 November The Hit includes drugs again and violence on the streets of Manchester yet is really about something else. The young adult novel, after all, is a story told by one invented young adult Burgess and many other writers of young adult literature are certainly not young adults to another. In Junk, Burgess uses a series of close first person narratives, most of them from the point of view of two main characters.

He offers us a character closeness, high stakes and risk-taking in our young people that was innovative at the time. After Junk, these were identified as traits of the young adult novel.

I know, I know. But you have to have hope. Junk is 20 years old — and it still speaks to us. Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth. Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in. Gillian James , University of Salford. But things were moving in that direction here, albeit slowly, and I suspect that the UK was always going to be a YA stronghold.

It did perhaps kick-start the genre, though. The book attracted writers to the genre as well — any number of people have told me that they were attracted to writing YA because they loved Junk, and because it showed them just how far you could go.

Most of all though, the book opened up a debate about teenage life and teenage literature, about whether young people had the right to read honest, authentic books; about what was suitable, what was not, and whether or not our young people should be protected from the harsh realities of life, or empowered to cope with them. Junk marks not so much a line in the sand, but the rubbing out of a line.

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