· Anthony Breznican’s debut novel, Brutal Youth, opens with a troubled teenaged boy, nicknamed “Clink,” violently hurtling statues of saints off the roof of St. Michael’s, the crumbling Catholic school that sets the stage for all the drama within the book’s four hundred plus pages. · BRUTAL YOUTH begins with statues of the saints being heaved off the roof. By the end of the novel, many of the characters who tried to be good and helpful to others end up being tossed aside as well. They pay a price for sticking their necks out, while the ruthless and selfish endure. · Read "Brutal Youth A Novel" by Anthony Breznican available from Rakuten Kobo. Three freshmen must join forces to survive at a troubled, working-class Catholic high school with a student body full of 4/5.
BRUTAL YOUTH. by Anthony Breznican. BUY NOW FROM That's an obvious echo of the movie Mean Girls and its "Burn Book," yet Breznican weaves a much darker tale than Tina Fey's, one in which there seems to be no limit to the kinds and amount of pain young people will inflict on one another. Brutal Youth: A Novel|Anthony Breznican, Business Japanese|Hajime Takamizawa, Biennial Report of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (eclac): Official Records of the Economic and Social Council (- 6 June )|United Nations, Gre in Political Science (GRE Program)|Mel Kulbicki. BRUTAL YOUTH is the stuff of quiet nightmare, from its explosive opening during a St. Michael's Open House to its Graduation Day ending. While it certainly contains elements unique to parochial school, those who remember the passing of their high school years with relief rather than regret will feel the unease and quiet fear dripping off.
Anthony Breznican’s debut novel, Brutal Youth, opens with a troubled teenaged boy, nicknamed “Clink,” violently hurtling statues of saints off the roof of St. Michael’s, the crumbling Catholic school that sets the stage for all the drama within the book’s four hundred plus pages. Brutal Youth by Anthony Breznican is a powerfully dark and mesmerizing novel. It transports the reader to our freshmen year in high school, a very frightening and uncertain time for most of us. St. Michael's Catholic High School is a mixture of delinquent students and misguided faculty. The novels main strength lies in its characters, in the way the author creates so many distinct voices and creates feelings of compassion and hate in each of them. Anthony Breznican is an American journalist and novelist who writes for Vanity Fair. He is the author of the novel Brutal Youth, about first-year students dealing with bullying at their Catholic high school. Breznican has also written notably about personal memories of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
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