Nick McDonell

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Nick McDonell (born February 18, 1984 in New York ) is an American writer . McDonell was his published in 2002, partly autobiographical novel Twelve (Engl. Twelve ) internationally known.

Life

Nick McDonell grew up in his native New York City, went to Buckley School and Riverdale Country School, and graduated from Harvard College in January 2007, where he studied literature. In June 2012 he graduated from St. Antony College Oxford with a degree in International Journalism.

His mother, Joanie, is a writer and his father, Terry McDonell, is the managing editor of Sports Illustrated magazine . His brother is the actor Thomas McDonell .

McDonell wrote his first, partly autobiographical novel Twelve at the age of 17 during his summer vacation. The fact that he was able to publish it as a teenager is thanks to the contacts made by his father, who himself works in the industry. The book has been translated into more than ten languages. A film adaptation with Chace Crawford in the leading role and rapper 50 Cent in a supporting role was released in 2010.

The English language edition of his second novel The Third Brother was published in September 2005; The German translation, The Third Brother , was published in 2006. His third novel, A High Price ( An Expensive Education ), was also published as a German translation, as was the fourth, Das Ende aller Kampfhandlungen (An Expensive Education).

Nick McDonell now works as a journalist and reports from Sudan and Iraq .

Works

Twelve

Characters from the novel Twelve

Twelve (original title: Twelve ) is McDonell's first book and is about the upper class of New York.

White Mike (main character) finished school six months and took a year off before going to college . He now lives in Manhattan and works there as a successful drug dealer , but is clean himself. He does not smoke, drink or smoke weed. His father works hard and is very rich, but he never has time for his son and can offer him nothing except all the money. After his mother dies, White Mike loses sight of his goals and future plans. Without comment, he takes us through a five-day odyssey that the five acts of a classic drama corresponds to the New York upper-class, accompanied by insecure, disoriented High School - students who are struggling in school holidays for boredom while looking after bigger and bigger kicks in the drug world. After Christmas , all the youngsters on 5th Avenue got to feel the "love" of their parents through plenty of money and celebrate wild drug and sex parties in their parents' villas while they are on a business trip . So White Mike is in his prime. He meets a childhood friend, Chris (there are two characters named Chris; here Chris, Claude's brother!), Who lets himself be exploited by the popular and beautiful Sara, and Jessica, who is on her way to her drug career start. All parallel strands come together in the breathtaking finale, a huge New Year's Eve party that ends very surprisingly.

background

Twelve is the name of a cocaine-containing drug that decides the fate of a young girl in this book: Jessica is getting more and more on the wrong track to get to the drug. The book is narrated at a rapid pace from the perspective of the protagonist , White Mike. White Mike is a drug dealer, but mostly only sells weaker drugs like hashish. The novel provides insights from an insider into the world of New York's upper class, which is not as dazzling as it appears from the outside.

Reviews

  • "Literary rampage: McDonell's talent test has undoubtedly succeeded brilliantly." - Focus
  • "This debut novel tells a story as fast as speed and as ruthless as acid." - The New York Times
  • "McDonell knows how to get readers to fly through the pages - the book has an inescapable narrative pull." - Newsweek
  • "A story of excess and its aftermath ... The final scene leaves the reader stunned - and curious about what this great writer is about to write next." - Publishers Weekly

All works

  • 2003: Twelve (Twelve), translated by Thomas Gunkel , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-462-03228-4 .
  • The third brother (The Third Brother), translated by Thomas Gunkel , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-462-03731-9 .
  • 2005: A high price (An Expensive Education), translated by Thomas Gunkel , Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8270-0944-9 .
  • 2008: The End of All Combat Operations (An Expensive Education), translated by Heike Schlatterer, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8270-1010-0 .
  • 2009: Guerre a Harvard
  • 2013: Green on Blue
  • 2015: White City
  • 2016: The Civilization of Perpetual Movement: Nomadism in World Politics

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nick McDonell at nickmcdonell.com. accessed on November 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ Who's who in US writers, editors & poets, Volume 1. Nick McDonell ISBN 0-913204-21-8
  3. ↑ Nick McDonell at nickmcdonell.com. accessed on November 28, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME McDonell, Nick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH new York