Looking for Alaska (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Looking for Alaska In a stunning debut novel, Miles "Pudge" Halter befriends some fellow boarding school students whose lives are everything but boring. Pudge falls in love with Alaska, the razor-sharp and self-destructive nucleus. But when tragedy strikes, Pudge discovers the value of loving unconditionally.
Full description- Publisher: E P Dutton & Co Inc
- Published: 03 March 2005
- Format: Hardback 221 pages
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- Categories: Fiction | School Stories | Society & Social Issues
- ISBN 13: 9780525475064 ISBN 10: 0525475060
- Sales rank: 4,515
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Full description for Looking for Alaska
The award-winning, genre-defining debut from #1 bestselling author of "The Fault in Our Stars" Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award "Los Angeles Times "Book Prize Finalist "New York Times "bestseller First drink First prank First friend First girl Last words Miles "Pudge" Halter is abandoning his safe-okay, "boring"-life. Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe and boring. Their nucleus is razor-sharp, sexy, and self-destructive Alaska, who has perfected the arts of pranking and evading school rules. Pudge falls impossibly in love. When tragedy strikes the close-knit group, it is only in coming face-to-face with death that Pudge discovers the value of living and loving unconditionally. John Green's stunning debut marks the arrival of a stand-out new voice in young adult fiction.
