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Ich gegen Osborne
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I Against Osbourne

Published by Diogenes as Ich gegen Osborne
Original Title: I Against Osbourne

It's a completely normal school day. But at Osbourne High School, shy James is stressed: wearing his recently deceased father's suit, he seems like the only responsible adult in an unrestrained, over-sexed society. He can't stand his fellow students, who want to be cool but are actually just callous and vulgar and constantly wear each other down. And now even the girl he likes, Chloe, a kindred spirit, seems to have discovered her feminine side while on holiday in Florida – and then some! Seeing no other option, James declares war: I Against Osbourne! Not just against the principal, whom he blackmails with knowledge about his sex-escapade with a female student, but against the entire high school. The ›outsider of all outsiders‹ resolves to stir up Osbourne High in a way that none of the hipsters ever has.


General Fiction
432 pages
2013

978-3-257-06853-5
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»I think it's great, the way Joey Goebel sees through pseudo-nonchalance and coolness without ever being schoolmasterly about it.«
Nina Anika Klotz / Petra, Hamburg
»A wonderfully told high school novel, full of humour and side swipes at the American school system, which sometimes behaves like a big kindergarten.«
Stefan Maelck / NDR Kultur, Hamburg
»Joey Goebel has written a wonderful book about the turmoil of still having to be a teenager, while already wanting to be an adult (and vice versa).«
Stefan Reis / Main-Echo, Aschaffenburg
»In ›I against Osbourne‹ Joey Goebel has managed to produce a critical consideration of school as part of modern partying society. And a sophisticated answer to the question of why a person might feel themselves to be an outsider.«
Roland Krüger / Deutschlandradio Kultur, Berlin
»A delectable work for all age groups.«
André Gross / Nordkurier, Neubrandenburg
»I think it's great, the way Joey Goebel sees through pseudo-nonchalance and coolness without ever being schoolmasterly about it.«
Nina Anika Klotz / Petra, Hamburg
»A wonderfully told high school novel, full of humour and side swipes at the American school system, which sometimes behaves like a big kindergarten.«
Stefan Maelck / NDR Kultur, Hamburg
»Joey Goebel has written a wonderful book about the turmoil of still having to be a teenager, while already wanting to be an adult (and vice versa).«
Stefan Reis / Main-Echo, Aschaffenburg
»In ›I against Osbourne‹ Joey Goebel has managed to produce a critical consideration of school as part of modern partying society. And a sophisticated answer to the question of why a person might feel themselves to be an outsider.«
Roland Krüger / Deutschlandradio Kultur, Berlin
»A delectable work for all age groups.«
André Gross / Nordkurier, Neubrandenburg
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