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Lucky (Paperback)

by Eddie de Oliveira (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Push (Feb 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0439546559
  • ISBN-13: 978-0439546553
  • Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 330,016 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Lucky transfers from the Stage to Print, 2 Jan 2004
As I write, 'Lucky' has not yet been published. However, a couple of years back I did get the opportunity to see one of the best written stage shows of its kind performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
'Lucky' on stage was a funny, honest, life affirming, and for many – a remarkably accurate, reflection of what it really is like to grow up a little different.
Sam, the main character, is a happy teen boy who's attracted to life, football, girls and boys. And he’s desperately trying to find a word that he can comfortably use to label himself. Just what is he? And who can he ask? Then on the football pitch he meets Toby, who also likes both boys and girls. Then they both meet the same girl.
From here the whole thing could become marvelously predictable, or turn into exploitative soap opera, but far from it. Eddie de Oliveira, author of both the book and the play, skillfully delivers a story that will delight, inform and surprise teenagers and adults alike.
If ‘Lucky’ is as good in print as it was on stage, it will be a tour de force, and will soon be the standard text on teen sexuality for the 21 century.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, 20 Jan 2004
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Having read the stage version, the novel really comes into its own. It has more depth to the characters giving more of an understanding to the them. This is a book thats hard to put down once picked up. Its easy for anybody to relate to, whether you are the age of the characters or reflecting back to the time you were. Its a young mans advanture to discover himself. A great read for anyone.
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5.0 out of 5 stars great and provoking, 1 Mar 2004
By Holly Lowe (North Yorkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
If you think that you have to be struggling with your sexuality or be in your late teens/early twenties to really relate to this book then you're very very wrong. I'm a girl with no quarms about my sexuality but yet still this story struck a very big chord with me. About how we try and define so much in our lives. What we are, and more frustratingly: what other people are to us. Are they boyfriends/ girlfriends / best friends / soul mates / good friends etc... We have so many labels, but sometimes there are the people that dont sit with any of these. you fancy them but not sexually perhaps..... so what does this make them? what does this make you?
Its a crazy world but I kid you not when I tell you that reading this book actually helped solve a lot of the confusion going on in my head. Its a story that tries to resolve everything but which never actually really does. Yet still weirdly, one can come at the end with some kind of buried clarity not disimilar to the main character.
It really is a very 'real' story, and so sweetly written. It flows with such ease and you feel really involved in the main character's world. You really feel like he is confifiding in you - the reader, and it gives you a kind of special tingly feeling which makes you really care for him.
I highly reccomend this to anyone who has experienced life! Oh i guess thats everyone - well everyone who also questions this experience. Go in expecting a touching, sweet story and come out feeling strangely elightened!
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