Talk:Junk (novel)

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Awards

 * first of multiple new sections in one session

The Carnegie and Guardian achievements are notable enough to be covered in the lead section, not buried. Done.

Probably this book also reached at least one of the shortlists that are usually covered in books articles, but none was yet mentioned here, so I deleted the Awards section. -P64

Simultaneous publication

 * one of multiple new sections

Does anyone know how to learn whether this novel was "co-published" in UK and US. "Simultaneous" publication isn't the same, and it's my inference from the first edition 14 Nov 1996 (by previous editors) and the 1996 US publication year. -P64 2012-07-11


 * Now I am uncertain about the US publication year, perhaps a mistake by one library. The U.S. Library of Congress catalog record gives publication date 1998 and Classification "PZ7.B9166 Sm 1997". I don't understand the internal discrepancy --not simply library receipt of a copy during calendar year 1997, i suppose, for there would be many such discrepancies in that case. I don't know whether its Edition "1st American ed." may be mistaken --hope not, having relied on that field so heavily elsewhere.
 * For now both LCC records are in the article as formal references *and* the lead continues to say simultaneous --my work last fortnight. --P64 (talk) 16:09, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

More catalog data for early US editions.
 * ISBN 0140380191 --that is, 1997 Penguin edition as Junk --if true, Smack is not the only US title
 * ISBN 080505801X --that is, 1998 Holt edition as Smack, called 1st American ed.
 * "After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin."

(The article now links twice --infobox, Extlink-- to one World record for the UK edition and does not mention either of these. It also links to LCCatalog records for UK and US editions. I consider that the more reliable of WP:RELIABLE SOURCEs and I would name its first US publisher in the article now, but the LC server is down or overloaded. I have copied its summary:
 * "Tells, in the voices of many individuals, of two fourteen-year-old runaways in Bristol, England, who find a home with anarchists and get involved in vandalism, shoplifting, and prostitution to support their growing addiction to heroin."

--P64 (talk) 14:57, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Trainspotting

 * last of three new sections in one session

Our biography Melvin Burgess is a mere Stub but it mentions the Trainspotting context of his most famous work in the lead paragraph. Almost certainly that should be covered here. Beside this note, all I have done is add "See also" both book and film. --P64 (talk) 17:13, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

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