Doing It
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Doing It is a 2004
young adult novel by award winning author Melvin Burgess
. It tells of the experiences of a group of English teenagers and their discovery of sex
for the first time. It is told from the point of view of the young males learning about first love and first loss.
2004 in literature
The year 2004 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation....
young adult novel by award winning author Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess is a British author of children's fiction. His first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. He gained a certain amount of notoriety in 1996 with the publication of Junk, which was published in the shadow of the film of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, and dealt with the...
. It tells of the experiences of a group of English teenagers and their discovery of sex
Sex
In biology, sex is a process of combining and mixing genetic traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into a male or female variety . Sexual reproduction involves combining specialized cells to form offspring that inherit traits from both parents...
for the first time. It is told from the point of view of the young males learning about first love and first loss.