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Chicken Shop (NHB Modern Plays)

Anna Jordan

Casa editrice: Nick Hern Books

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A dark and twisted coming-of-age story by the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Yen.
Hendrix is growing up. Or at least he's trying to. But he's sick of his mother and her constant preaching on the virtues of an organic lifestyle. And he's sick of her girlfriend, a twentysomething stunner who winds him up relentlessly. But most of all he is sick of the bullies at school who target him viciously, thinking if his mum is gay then he must be too.
In a desperate attempt to prove his masculinity, Hendrix enters a very adult world and gets far more than he bargained for. He meets Luminita - a young girl enslaved into an unbearable life. She finds comfort in Hendrix; a chance to connect, to be seen as a human being. Though from completely different worlds, their secret friendship grows in snatched moments in a sordid room above a Chicken Shop.
Disponibile da: 15/09/2014.
Lunghezza di stampa: 120 pagine.

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