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Elsewhere

Elsewhere( )
Author: Zevin, Gabrielle
Series title:Black's Class Readers Ser.
ISBN:978-0-7136-7887-1
Publication Date:Aug 2007
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:A&C Black Childrens & Educational
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $15.95
Book 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 beginning, 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...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Death, Grief, Bereavement
Juvenile Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.5 x 19.9 x 3.1 cm
Book Weight:0.322 Kilograms
Author Biography
Zevin, Gabrielle (Author)
Gabrielle Zevin was born in New York City on October 24, 1977. She received a degree in English and American literature from Harvard University in 2000.

She has written both adult and young adult novels. Her debut, Margarettown, was a selection of the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers program. Her other works include The Hole We're In, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry. Her young adult novel Elsewhere was an American Library Association Notable Children's Book. She has also written for the New York Times Book Review and NPR's All Things Considered.

She is the screenwriter of Conversations with Other Women starring Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart, for which she received an Independent Spirit Award Nomination. In 2009, she and director Hans Canosa adapted her novel Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac into the Japanese film, Dareka ga Watashi ni Kiss wo Shita.

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