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Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World

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1st March 2013

Price: £12.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781444743968

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House Parties. Pick-Up Trucks. Cherry-Vanilla Ice-Cream. Prom Night. Unrequited Love.

Welcome to the spring of 1987 and the world of Stephen Shulevitz who, with three months of high school to go in the small town of Riverside, Nova Scotia, has just realised he’s fallen in love – with exactly the wrong person.

Welcome to the end of the world.

As Stephen navigates his last few months before college dealing with his overly dependent mother, his distant, pot-smoking father, and his dysfunctional best friends Lana and Mark, he must decide between love and childhood friendship; between the person he is and the person he can be. But sometimes leaving the past behind is harder than it seems . . .

Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World is a bittersweet story of growing up and of one young man finding happiness on his own terms.

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Reviews

Sue Leonard, Irish Examiner
A stunning debut. I loved it.
Sunday Business Post
Witty, devastating, with a melancholy humour, it's an impressive debut that begs to be read in one emotional tear-streaked rush
Rick O'Shea, Bord Gais Energy Book Club
I raced through it, found it hard to put down when I had to and wanted more when I was finished ... Page-turning, top drawer stuff in the genre it lives in
The Globe and Mail, Toronto
Cameron's portrayal of 17-year-old Stephen Shulevitz is astonishingly good ... A juicy coming-of-age novel, and an important read
Quill and Quire
A poignant debut ... Cameron doesn't shy away from the complexity of her material, and the effects are heart-wrenching.
GCN
(Cameron is ) a talented writer, and the journey she takes us on is always pleasurable, sometimes moving, and has a lyrical literary style ... Stephen himself is a sharply drawn protagonist, his teenage view of the world suitably cynical, but underlined with almost poetic, acute observation
Irish News
A fantastic debut novel ... The book is warm, witty, heartfelt and utterly engaging - it's a superb coming-of-age tale