Train Wreck and Too Late (Single Voice) - Softcover

Martini, Clem; Lindroth, Malin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554512581 ISBN 13: 9781554512584

Publisher: Annick Press, 2010

Synopsis

Some mistakes can never be repaired.

The narrator of Train Wreck is looking back at the year she was 15 . . . She is in love with a bad boy named Johnny. Johnny's friends play a cruel trick on a misfit named Suzy by convincing her that Johnny is attracted to her. When the prank goes too far, the narrator wants something big to happen to prove Johnny still loves her. The prank goes tragically wrong when Suzy is gang-raped. The narrator, now married to Johnny, reflects on the day she watched the horrific attack and did nothing.

In Too Late, 15-year-old Greg is in a teen sex offenders' facility because of an assault on his stepsister. He hates the professionals who try to help him and can't wait to go home. When he enters a room for a meeting, his mother is there crying. Her partner, whom Greg calls Step Dude, sits at her side. They have come to tell Greg they don't want him back. It's too late to be good, they say. Greg comes to the crippling realization of what he has become: the father he has both hated and feared.

Each book in the Single Voice series consists of two separate but thematically connected stories with distinct inverted covers in an alluring "flip-book" format. Exploding with the urgency, drama and confusion of adolescence, these books will appeal to both avid and less experienced readers. No subject is off limits in the Single Voice series.

About this title

About the Author:

Malin Lindroth writes poetry, short stories and plays. She lives on the west Coast of Sweden.

Clem Martini is an award-winning playwright, a screenwriter and an associate professor of drama at the University of Calgary. He lives in Calgary, Alberta, with his wife and two daughters.

Melanie Little, series editor, is an award-winning author and editor of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Author of the highly acclaimed young-adult novel The Apprentice's Masterpiece, she lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she teaches creative writing.

Review:

A great choice for mature readers who are looking for something different to sink their teeth into. (Canadian Materials Reviews 2010-10-22)

About this edition

• Publisher: Annick Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1554512581
• ISBN 13: 9781554512584
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Little Melanie