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Boy A / Jonathan Trigell.

by Trigell, Jonathan, 1974-

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Serpent's Tail, 2007, c2004

Male juvenile delinquents -- Fiction.

Male juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation -- Fiction.

9781846686627 (trade pbk.)

1846686628 (trade pbk.)

Serpent's Tail ed.

248 p. ; 20 cm.

First published in 2004 by Serpent's Tail.

"Winner of World Book Day Books to Talk About Prize 2008."--Back cover

"A is for apple. A bad apple. Jack has spent most of his life in juvenile institutions: he's about to be released with a new name, new job, and a new life. At 24, he is utterly innoncent of the world, yet guilty of a monstrous childhood crime. To his new friends, he is a good guy with occasional flashes of unexplained violence. To his girlfriend, he is strangely naive and unreachable. To his case worker, he's a victim of the system and of media-driven hysteria. And to himself, Jack is on permanent trial: he struggles to start from scratch, forget the past, become someone else. At a time when the privacy of an individual is under threat from all sides, Boy A raises fundamental questions about the morality of the media."--Back cover.

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