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Seventeen Condition:Very Good she meets—and becomes one of—theEngaging and engrossing, frank and frankly troubling, Seventeen is a book not easily forgotten. Its 1992. Like every other seventeen year old boy, Joe has one eye on his studies, the other on his social life smoking, Britpop, girls. Hes looking ahead to a gap year full of travel and adventure before university when his teacher attractive, mid thirties takes an interest in him. It seems like a fantasy come true. For his final two years at school, he is