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Daniel Clay

Paperback | Pages: 297 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 2061 Users | 304 Reviews

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Title	:	Broken
Author	:	Daniel Clay
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 297 pages
Published	:	October 2008 by HarperCollins (first published June 1st 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Young Adult. Contemporary. Adult Fiction

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Skunk Cunningham is an eleven-year-old girl in a coma. She has a loving dad, an absent mother and a brother who plays more X-Box than is good for him. She also has the neighbours from hell: the five Oswald girls and their thuggish father Bob, vicious bullies all of them, whose reign of terror extends unchallenged over their otherwise quiet suburban street. And yet terrifying though they undoubtedly are, the stiletto-wearing, cider-swilling Oswald girls are also sexy - so when Saskia asks shy, virginal Rick Buckley for a ride in his new car, he can't believe his luck. Too bad that Saskia can't keep her big mouth shut. When, after a quick fumble, she broadcasts Rick's deficiencies to anyone who will listen, it puts ideas into her younger sisters silly head - ideas that will see Rick dragged off to prison, humiliated, and ultimately, in his fathers words, broken by the experience. From her hospital bed, Skunk guides us through the events that follow, as Saskia's small act of thoughtlessness slowly spreads through the neighbourhood in a web of increasing violence. Skunk watches as her shabby, hardworking father finds love, only for her courageous, idealistic teacher to lose it; as poor broken Buckley descends into madness, while across the street her brother Jed makes his first adolescent forays into sex; and as her own gentle romance with soft-hearted, tough-talking Dillon struggles to survive against a backdrop that seamlessly combines the sublime and the ridiculous. As we inch ever closer to the mystery behind her coma, Skunk's innocence becomes a beacon by which we navigate a world as comic as it is tragic, and as effortlessly engaging as it is ultimately uplifting, in this brilliant and utterly original debut novel.

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Original Title:	Broken
ISBN:	0007270135 (ISBN13: 9780007270132)
Edition Language:	English

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I first picked up Broken because of the cover art (always a sucker) and because it was compared to Lullabies for Little Criminals, one of my all-time favourite books.High accolades. High hopes.Thankfully, it all lived up to - and surpassed - the hype, catapulting Broken into one of my top-five favourite novels of all time.From the first sentence through to the last, I was drawn into the lives of coma-bound Skunk and her family and neighbours. The world Daniel Clay created has all of my favourite

Skunk is 11 and in a coma. From her hospital bed she guides the reader through the events in her neighbourhood.Across the street to Skunk, live the Buckleys, a mild mannered couple with their awkward son Rick. In the same square live the Oswalds, a family of foul-mouth bullies.Saksia Oswald, out of a bet with her older sister, went for a drive with Rick Buckley, seduced him and then proceeded to humiliate him throughout the neighborhood. Later in the day, Saksia's younger sister was caught with

Shocking!!!!This book jars the readers minds and emotions with the series of violent and unexpected blows. It tells the intertwining stories of three families and it reminded me of the movie Crash. I loved that movie and I absolutely love this book. It made me wonder why do some people learn how to survive and some don't. Can a lamb learn how to fight off a lion? Eleven year old Skunk Cunningham (love the name) is playing on the curb in front of her house (on Drummond Square in the suburbs of

Im speechless.....my heart is racing.....this was an incredible read. Get it - NOW!!!!

Disgusting book, not enjoyable at all. I have had it with ugly stories. No more. While suffering through this, I read from Psalm 119: I will turn my eyes from worthless things... And I thought, this is a worthless thing.It's based on To Kill a Mockingbird, but there's no comparison.

I picked this book up for $4.00 at a used book store. The cover is what drew me in, I love it. Then, I read that it was inspired by 'To Kill a Mockingbird', one of my favorites. This is a classic case of 'don't judge a book by it's cover'. I actually want my $4.00 back.The synopsis made it sound like a pretty good book. A neighborhood mystery. I started reading it and saw that the main character and narrator was in a coma, that just intrigued me more. Sadly, that was the high point and that was

Page one - what the hell am I reading?One third through - this isn't so bad after all.Two thirds through - damn, I can't put this down.Epilogue - wow, what a good book.Well, that's my mini-review. The full review goes something like this: someone recommended this first novel from a British writer to me and wasn't exactly sure how to describe it. It's part drama, part comedy, told from the perspective of an eleven year old girl. There's a lot of British slang and street vernacular in it, which is