Creating a sensation around the world when it was first published, "Twelve" established it s seventeen-year-old author as a powerful voice of the new millennium. The chilling novel follows prep school dropout White Mike through the week between Christmas and New Year s 1999, as he takes a year off to deal an alluring new drug to his privileged peers on Manhattan s Upper East Side. But "Twelve" is not a coming-of-age story, because its kids never had a childhoodtheir parents are off on holiday in Bali or business in Brussels, leaving hired help to look the other way as the kids stay home alone...

McDonell's third novel takes readers into Harvard through its dormitories and dining halls, into its elite finals clubs and lecture halls. An Expensive Education is a smart, relentless novel set at the troubled intersection of ivory academia and realpolitik.

'Twelve', der Name für eine neue harte Droge, ist der bestürzende Roman über eine Gruppe Jugendlicher in New York: eine privilegierte "lost generation", die sich alles leisten zu können glaubt und deren Leben in einer Katastrophe endet.§§Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.