Smack
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.38 (737 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0613182782 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 293 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
CHILLING This book is a great read. I myself was a heroin addict for three years, but have been clean since May 10th 2003, something I got into with my boyfriend. It was a quick descent into hell. Both of us became shells of our former selves. Only difference is that we came from loving, stable households. I could totally relate to Tar & Gemma, only difference is that I am American, not British. It was sort of difficult to read, because as a former addict, reading about drug use, especially heroin, makes me think about it, something I don't need to do. Bu. Story Pulls At Heart Strings In an attempt to liven up the content of my classroom library, I have been reading several young adult novels this summer. When I started this one, I felt that the first person narration was a little slow. I worried that students might lose interest or become confused by the multiple narrative technique. As I continued to read my opinion changed. Characters started to come alive on the pages. The world of heroin addiction was depicted in an unforgetable manner. The images that will stick with me the longest are those of "Sunny" the innocent baby . More than a heroin story jmh Being a forensics nurse, working in correctionals, I am always searching for information about heroin and other drugs. I was intitially intrigued with this story line as it seemed to represent the beginning of the disease itself. Heroin is huge now in America, with most of my female inmates intimately familiar with the drug. This novel was targeted for Young Adults, which I have some reservations about. It romanticized the process more than I feel is appropriate. The issue of runaways is important, however I rarely see them so well taken care of.
Like so many teenagers, Tar and Gemma are fed up with their parents. For a while, everything is parties and adventures, but slowly Tar and Gemma find themselves growing more and more dependent on the drug--whose strict mandates are even less forgiving than those of the parents they fled. Then you get sick of it and give up for a few days. (Tar's personality changes dramatically over the course of the book, from sweet-natured, lonely boy to hard-edged, hit-seeking addict.) More subtle and less graphic than B
The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. "Better?" she said.Smack is the winner of the 1996 Carnegie Medal in Literature.. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space. All the pain . I leaned back and I looked at the book and I looked at them and Gemma smiled at me, a big soft smile, and her eyes were like marbles. This time it was Lily and Rob and Gemma spending all that time to make me feel one of them, but it was the drug too. I can give it up any time I want .Sometimes maybe you need an experience. All that negative stuff. It just floated away from me, I just floated away from it up and away . The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. All that crapabout Gemma leaving me, about Mum and Dad, about leaving home