Asset Details
Do you wish to reserve the book?
Review: TEENAGE FICTION: Annabel Pitcher enjoys a tough and tender tale of bullying and blackmail: Dead Ends by Erin Lange (328pp, Faber, pounds 12.99)
Hey, we have placed the reservation for you!
By the way, why not check out events that you can attend while you pick your title.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place the reservation. Kindly try again later.
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
Review: TEENAGE FICTION: Annabel Pitcher enjoys a tough and tender tale of bullying and blackmail: Dead Ends by Erin Lange (328pp, Faber, pounds 12.99)
Do you wish to request the book?
Review: TEENAGE FICTION: Annabel Pitcher enjoys a tough and tender tale of bullying and blackmail: Dead Ends by Erin Lange (328pp, Faber, pounds 12.99)
Please be aware that the book you have requested cannot be checked out. If you would like to checkout this book, you can reserve another copy
We have requested the book for you!
Your request is successful and it will be processed during the Library working hours. Please check the status of your request in My Requests.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place your request. Kindly try again later.
Newspaper Article
Review: TEENAGE FICTION: Annabel Pitcher enjoys a tough and tender tale of bullying and blackmail: Dead Ends by Erin Lange (328pp, Faber, pounds 12.99)
2014
Overview
Erin Lange's subject is bullying. In her debut novel, Butter, we were on the side of the victim, a fat boy attempting to eat himself to death on the internet for the grisly viewing pleasure of his peers. In Dead Ends, we are rooting for the bully - hot-headed thug Dane Washington, who kick-starts the action by unapologetically smashing his foot into \"some guy's throat\". In Dane's world, violence is justified if people are \"asking for it\", the only exception to the rule being girls and \"retards\". If you balk at the use of that word, Dead Ends is not the novel for you. Like RJ Palacio, with whom Lange has been compared, she pulls no punches when describing the mistreatment of \"freak\" Billy D, a teenage boy with Down's syndrome, who moves into Dane's street on the wrong side of town (Columbia, Missouri). At best, Billy D is seen as a helpless victim in need of mollycoddling by the well-meaning but patronising staff of Twain High School; at worst, he is \"Flat Face\", teased for his slack jaw, slanted eyes and lisping, high-pitched voice by a group of seniors threatening to beat him up for being different.
Publisher
Guardian News & Media Limited
Subject
