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Elsewhere Synopsis
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.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780747577201 |
| Publication date: |
5th June 2006 |
| Author: |
Gabrielle Zevin |
| Publisher: |
Bloomsbury Children's Books an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
273 pages |
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Press Reviews
Gabrielle Zevin Press 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
So convincing you find yourself wanting to read the book backwards when you've finished - Sunday Telegraph
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About Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin is a screenwriter and a novelist. As a screenwriter, Gabrielle has optioned several screenplays, and her screenplay for Conversations with Other Women, was filmed with Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart in the lead roles, now available on DVD.
Gabrielle is a 2000 graduate of Harvard with a degree in English & American Literature. She was born in New York and lives there still with one pug dog, Mrs. DeWinter, and her partner of ten years, director Hans Canosa.
Gabrielle's books have been translated into eighteen languages. All These Things I’ve Done is the first part of an eagerly anticipated trilogy.
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