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Author: Nick McDonell
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Nov 2002
 | Twelve
by Nick McDonell
Publishers Group West
244 pages $37.95 cloth
ISBN: 0802117171
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Wealth, Ennui, Slaughter
by Matt Sturrock
What immediately strikes the reader upon picking up Nick McDonell's first novel, Twelve, is that the publisher was able to wrangle a cover blurb from reclusive gonzo giant Hunter S. Thompson. That Dr. Thompson postponed his own important workłthat of ingesting LSD and firing large calibre tracer bullets at the empty Jim Beam bottles lining his fencełin order to read McDonell's book and then dictate a message to a courageous assistant is in itself impressive. Read more...
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