Looking for Alaska

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Looking for Alaska

Author : John Green

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Highlights

English

Language

NA

Edition

272

Pages

9780007424832

ISBN-13

0007424832

ISBN-10

Harpercollinschildrensbooks

Publisher

198 mm

Height

129 mm

Width

10 mm

Thickness

Paperback

Binding

Description

A deeply affecting coming-of-age story, Looking for Alaska traces the journey of Miles Halter, a misfit Florida teenager who leaves the safety of home for a boarding school in Alabama and a chance to explore the Great Perhaps. Debut novelist and NPR commentator Green perfectly captures the intensity of feeling and despair that defines adolescence in this hip, shocking, a A deeply affecting coming-of-age story, Looking for Alaska traces the journey of Miles Halter, a misfit Florida teenager who leaves the safety of home for a boarding school in Alabama and a chance to explore the Great Perhaps. 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. Miles has a quirky interest in famous peoples last words, especially François Rabelaiss final statement, I go to seek a Great Perhaps. Determined not to wait for death to begin a similar quest, Miles convinces his parents to let him leave home. Once settled at Culver Creek Preparatory School, he befriends a couple of equally gifted outcasts: his roommate Chipcommonly known as the Colonel—who has a predilection for memorizing long, alphabetical lists for fun and the beautiful and unpredictable Alaska, whom Miles comes to adore. The kids grow closer as they make their way through a school year filled with contraband, tests, pranks, breakups, and revelations about family and life. But as the story hurtles toward its shattering climax, chapter headings like forty-six days before and the last day portend a tragic eventone that will change Miles forever and lead him to new conclusions about the value of his cherished Great Perhaps.