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Flirtin' With the Monster : Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass - Ellen Hopkins

Flirtin' With the Monster

Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass

By: Ellen Hopkins (Editor)

Paperback | 12 May 2009

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Where is the line between truth and fiction?

Why do love and addiction so often go hand in hand?

What does the real "Kristina" think about the way her story is told in Crank and Glass?

Crank and Glass have always been more than just stories. Join their author Ellen Hopkins and a host of other writers as they delve deep into Kristina's story, from the straight truth on the physical effects of methamphetamine addiction to the psychological consequences of keeping secrets (and how Hopkins' books have encouraged so many teens to reveal theirs).

With an essay by Ellen's real-life daughter (the basis for the character of "Kristina") that tells her version of the events that inspired the books—along with perspectives from "Scott," "Jake," and 10-year-old "Hunter," the baby from Crank—Flirtin' with the Monster is a compelling journey through the complexities of Hopkins' beloved bestselling works.
Industry Reviews
This uneven collection of essays about Ellen Hopkins's Crank (2004) and Glass (2007) combines outside analysis with firsthand perspectives from the people behind the characters. The free-verse novels describe "Kristina's" (the novelized name of Hopkins' real daughter) spiral downwards into methamphetamine addiction. Here, a treatment expert and a judge with experience sentencing meth addicts provide frank, disquieting chapters about the brain damage that makes meth such a "monster." Several authors, conversely, contribute slapdash social analysis and weak literary criticism plagued by unfounded conclusions, straw men and an odd ignorance of young-adult literature (lauding Hopkins as unusual for addressing dark topics, for instance). A grating absence of documentation discourages intertextual follow-up: Crank and Glass quotations lack page numbers (and often line breaks, which kills the razor-sharp verse), while other sources lack traceable references. However, fans will flock to the essays by the real "Kristina," her stepfather, her sister and the son she bore while on meth (he's now 11). Hardly a model for budding literary critics, but the stronger chapters and 11 new verses from Hopkins will entice - and appropriately frighten - readers. (Nonfiction. YA) (Kirkus Reviews)

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