Apples

✍ Scribed by Milward, Richard

• Book ID: 107207574
• Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 109 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Review

“Catcher in the Rye meets Arctic Monkeys.”— The Times

"This superb stage version of Richard Millward's debut novel is - like an underage Trainspotting - an upbeat and sometimes even joyous affair that suggests that for all the trials and tribulations of the teenage years, the kids are probably going to be OK."
—Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

“Adaptor and director John Retallack's version works very well. Anyone wanting to understand - or, at any rate, to begin to understand - the pressures young people face in growing up at the bottom of our society's heap should see Apples. But don't expect an enjoyable evening of theatre - moving, illuminating, superbly well done, certainly, but "enjoyable" is definitely not the right word!”— British Theatre Guide

“A superb stage version of Richard Milward's debut novel… It's a funny-sad, ugly-beautiful night out, nicely performed by its young cast and swirling with the sweaty, dirty poetry of everyday life. 4 stars”
—Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

“A neat, pacey production … A rollercoaster ride through adolescence in all its frantic, anxious, smeary, glittering glory.”
—Alice Jones, The Independent

Product Description

Out of the bleakness of their Middlesbrough housing estate, fuelled by cheap plonk, porn and dysfunctional families, Adam and Eve narrate this dazzling, tragicomic love story of adolescence in all its fucked-up glory. ‘[An] unbelievably good, affecting, unpretentious debut novel . . . more than anything, Apples feels truthful: whether the drugs, the sex, the boozing or the brutal insecurities of adolescence, it all smacks beautifully of the real thing.’ Jon Elek, Time Out ‘Wonderful . . . Apples is unlike any other novel I’ve read. Who knows? We may have discovered our J.D. Salinger early.’ John Sutherland, Financial Times‘Crass, graphic, funny and unnerving . . . Well constructed and streaming with gorgeous language, it’s a frighteningly recognisable glimpse into a particular experience of adolescence.’ Catherine Taylor, Guardian ‘A retelling of Paradise Lost set on a Middlesbrough housing estate, Apples is . . . experimental, fearless, funny and frightening.’ Sarah Hughes, Observer‘Electrifying.’ Melissa Katsoulis, The Times