What I Was - Brossura

Rosoff, Meg

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0452290236 ISBN 13: 9780452290235

Casa editrice: Penguin Group USA, 2008

Riassunto

Sailing the eastern coast of England with his godson, one-hundred-year-old H remembers his privileged teenage exploits at the side of unlikely childhood companion Finn, whose significantly different lifestyle enchants H before the pair is shattered by a painful scandal. Reprint.

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“There is magic, power, and mystery in the novel, without anyone ever waving a wand.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
 
“A beautifully crafted tale that seems, like its protagonist, both enduringly old and fluently new.”
—Los Angeles Times
 
“This whole novel is built on a surprise. . . . Beyond the surprise lies the beauty of what it means to live without junk in your life, only essential beauty, together with the reminder that all of it—the junk and the beauty—will be gone in a twinkling. This is a lovely book.”
—The Washington Post
 
“A richly patterned work about secrets and how an innocent crush can utterly change everything.”
—People magazine (four stars)
 
“[Rosoff’s] portrayal of adolescent awakening is intimate and thoroughly persuasive.”
—The Boston Globe

L'autore:

Meg Rosoff grew up in Boston and worked in advertising for fifteen years before writing her first novel, How I Live Now, which has sold more than one million copies in thirty-six territories. It won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Printz Award, was short-listed for the Orange Prize and made into a film. Her subsequent five novels have been awarded or short-listed for, among others, the Carnegie Medal and the National Book Award. The laureate of the 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, she lives in London with her husband, daughter, and two dogs. Her most recent novel is Jonathan Unleashed.

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• Editore: Penguin Group USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0452290236
• ISBN 13: 9780452290235
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 209