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Elsewhere

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Elsewhere
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Gabrielle Zevin
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
ISBN/Barcode 9781408880104
ClassificationsDewey:813.6
Audience
Teenage / Young Adult

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Childrens Books
Publication Date 14 July 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

How do you describe ELSEWHERE? A novel so astoundingly original and carefully crafted that its complexities become common place and the common place resounds with poetry? In this delightful novel death is a begining, a new start. Liz is killed in a hit a run accident and her 'life' takes a very unexpected turn. At nearly sixteen she knows she will never get married, never have children, and perhaps never fall in love. But in Elsewhere all things carry on almost as they did on earth except that the inhabitants get younger, dogs and humans can communicate (at last) new relationships are formed and old ones sadly interrupted on earth are renewed. Full of the most ingenious detail and woven around the most touching and charming relationships this is a novel of hope, of redemption and re-birth. It is a novel that tells of sadness with heart-breaking honesty and of love and happiness with uplifting brilliance.

Author Biography

Gabrielle Zevin is a first time novelist of extra-ordinary talent. She lives in Manhattan where she also writes screen-plays.

Reviews

"Every so often a book comes along with a premise so fresh and arresting it seems to exist in a category all its own. "Elsewhere," by Gabrielle Zevin, is such a book. Zevin's touch is marvelously light even as she considers profundities, easily moving among humor, wisdom and lyricism... No plot synopsis can convey what a rich, wise spell this book casts." * The New York Times Book Review * "Fascinating. Zevin, in her first novel for young people, bends the laws of physics and biology to create an intricately imagined world." * Publishers Weekly *