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Apples, an unassuming debut novel plucked from the imagination of a remarkable new twenty-one-year-old talent, and published to rave reviews in London, is a surprising, affecting, ingeniously crafted little coming-of age novel that has critics calling Richard Milward the voice of the MySpace generation.
As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates, and her mother’s progressing cancer, Eve’s adolescent eyes are opened to a multicolored life of fumbling one-night stands, drug-fuelled clubs, endless varieties of candy-flavored cheap booze, and banal consumerist choices. She barely has time to notice Adam. Adam, however, notices Eve. While contending with sexual frustration, an asshole father, and increasingly compulsive behavior, is Adam too busy furtively reading porn in his bedroom to make his move on Eve?
A paean to the scattershot difficulties of growing up, the complications of friendship, and the consequences of hormones in overdrive, Apples is a deliciously pitch-perfect debut.
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Posted August 10, 2012
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Posted July 1, 2008
With a plot that is neither far-faetched nor completely dull, Apples is a definitely a novel I'd recommend to any teen who is in need of a good book to read by the fire, park, or any other place of interest. The style of the novel is more journal- entry, but instead of getting perspectives from solely the main characters, Eve and Adam, Richard Milward incorporates a voice from almost all the characters in the book, including their dyslexic friend Debbie (who Milward purposely has her entry completely backwards) to the butterfly who spreads his wings for the first time while observing Eve and Adam on school grounds. By having different perspectives of the characters, instead of their dilouge being a 'he said, she said', it's so much easier to understand how the characters look and feel themselves as well as seeing them through the eyes of others. Although the book was most excelent, i did feel a little rushed in the end, which brought some dissapointment. Other than that, I found the book really easy to get into and I'm looking forward to reading more of Milwards novels when the time comes.
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Apples, an unassuming debut novel plucked from the imagination of a remarkable new twenty-one-year-old talent, and published to rave reviews in London, is a surprising, affecting, ingeniously crafted little coming-of age novel that has critics calling Richard Milward the voice of the MySpace generation.
As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates, and her mother’s progressing cancer, Eve’s adolescent eyes are opened to a multicolored life of fumbling ...