Book description
First drink, first prank, first friend, first girl, last words… A
poignant and moving crossover novel about making friends and growing up
from American author, John Green.
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words - and tired of his
safe, boring and rather lonely life at home. He leaves for boarding
school filled with cautious optimism, to seek what the dying poet
Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much awaits
Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny,
screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and
catapult him into the Great Perhaps.
Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life
can have on another. “Miles's narration is alive with sweet,
self-deprecating humor, and his obvious struggle to tell the story
truthfully adds to his believability.” School Library Journal
“What sings and soars in this gorgeously told tale is Green's mastery
of language and the sweet, rough edges of Pudge's voice. Girls will cry
and boys will find love, lust, loss and longing in Alaska's
vanilla-and-cigarettes scent.” Kirkus
“This is an amazing first novel by a writer who is young enough to
vividly remember his powerful years of high school and he expertly turns
remembrance into story.” Children's Literature
“The novel's chief appeal lies in Miles's well-articulated lust and his
initial excitement about being on his own for the first time.”
Publishers Weekly
“Debut novelist and NPR commentator Green perfectly captures the
intensity of feeling and despair that defines adolescence in this hip,
shocking, and emotionally charged work of fiction.”
Barnes & Noble John Green attended a boarding school in Alabama
not entirely unlike ALASKA's Culver Creek. After graduating from college
in 2000, he moved to Chicago, where is is a writer, editor and reviewer,
as well as a regular contributor to public radio. LOOKING FOR ALASKA is
his first novel.
