Looking for Alaska

Zusatztext Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller NPR's Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels TIME magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time A PBS Great American Read Selection An ALA Best Book for Young Adults! Top 10 • An ALA Quick Pick • A Booklist Editors' Choice selection • A Kirkus Best Book of the Year • An SLJ Best Book of the Year • A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best • A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age What sets this novel apart is the brilliant! insightful! suffering but enduring voice of Miles Halter. Chicago Tribune Looking For Alaska is a showcase to the raw talent John Green has! the kind of talent that can make you close the crisp last page of a novel and come out as a different person.... A gem of modern literature." Guardian ? What sings and soars in this gorgeously told tale is Green's mastery of language and the sweet! rough edges of Pudge's voice. Kirkus ? Alive with sweet! self-deprecating humor. SLJ Funny! sad! inspiring! and always compelling. Bookpage The spirit of Holden Caulfield lives on. Kliatt Stunning conclusion . . . one worthy of a book this good. Philadelphia Inquirer Informationen zum Autor John Green Klappentext The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our StarsWinner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • NPR's Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels • TIME magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time • A PBS Great American Read Selection • Millions of copies sold! First drink. First prank. First friend. First love.Last words. Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words-and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called "The Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who 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. A modern classic, this stunning debut marked #1 bestselling author John Green's arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction. So do you really memorize last words? She ran up beside me and grabbed my shoulder and pushed me back onto the porch swing. Yeah, I said. And then hesitantly, I added, You want to quiz me? JFK, she said. That's obvious, I answered. Oh, is it now? she asked. No. Those were his last words. Someone said, 'Mr. President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you,' and then he said, 'That's obvious,' and then he got shot. She laughed. God, that's awful. I shouldn't laugh. But I will, and then she laughed again. Okay, Mr. Famous Last Words Boy. I have one for you. She reached into her overstuffed backpack and pulled out a book. Gabriel García Márquez. The General in His Labyrinth. Absolutely one of my favorites. It's about Simón Bolívar. I didn't know who Simón Bolívar was, but she didn't give me time to ask. It's a historical novel, so I don't know if this is true, but in the book, do you know what his last words are? No, you don't. But I am about to tell you, Señor Parting Remarks. And then she lit a cigarette and sucked on it so hard for so long that I thought the entire thing might burn off in one drag. She exhaled and read to me: 'He'that's Simón Bolívar'was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams ...

Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
A *New York Times *Bestseller • A *USA Today *Bestseller
NPR’s Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels
*TIME *magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time
A PBS Great American Read Selection
 
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Top 10 • An ALA Quick Pick • A *Booklist *Editors’ Choice selection • A *Kirkus *Best Book of the Year • An *SLJ *Best Book of the Year • A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best • A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age

“What sets this novel apart is the brilliant, insightful, suffering but enduring voice of Miles Halter.” —Chicago Tribune
 
“*Looking For Alaska *is a showcase to the raw talent John Green has, the kind of talent that can make you close the crisp last page of a novel and come out as a different person.... 

A gem of modern literature." —Guardian 
 
★ “What sings and soars in this gorgeously told tale is Green’s mastery of language and the sweet, rough edges of Pudge’s voice.” —Kirkus

★ “Alive with sweet, self-deprecating humor.” *—SLJ*
 
“Funny, sad, inspiring, and always compelling.” —*Bookpage*
 
“The spirit of Holden Caulfield lives on.” —*Kliatt *
 
“Stunning conclusion . . . one worthy of a book this good.” —*Philadelphia Inquirer*

Autorentext

John Green

Klappentext

The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • NPR's Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels • TIME magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time • A PBS Great American Read Selection • Millions of copies sold! First drink. First prank. First friend. First love. Last words. Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words-and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called "The Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who 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. A modern classic, this stunning debut marked #1 bestselling author John Green's arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction.

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ldquo;So do you really memorize last words?” She ran up beside me and grabbed my shoulder and pushed me back onto the porch swing.

“Yeah,” I said. And then hesitantly, I added, “You want to quiz me?”

“JFK,” she said.

“That’s obvious,” I answered.

“Oh, is it now?” she asked.

“No. Those were his last words. Someone said, ‘Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you,’ and then he said, ‘That’s obvious,’ and then he got shot.”

She laughed. “God, that’s awful. I shouldn’t laugh. But I will,” and then she laughed again. “Okay, Mr. Famous Last Words Boy. I have one for you.” She reached into her overstuffed backpack and pulled out a book. “Gabriel García Márquez. The General in His Labyrinth. Absolutely one of my favorites. It’s about Simón Bolívar.” I didn’t know who Simón Bolívar was, but she didn’t give me time to ask. “It’s a historical novel, so I don’t know if this is true, but in the book, do you know what his last words are? No, you don’t. But I am about to tell you, Señor Parting Remarks.”

And then she lit a cigarette and sucked on it so hard for so long that I thought the…