Looking for Alaska by John Green

Looking for Alaska by John Green

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.

Mary K. Kirtz is professor emerita of English and director of Canadian studies at the University of Akron. She has served on the executive council of the Association of Canadian Studies in the United States and as president of the Midwest Association of Canadian Studies. She is an associate editor of the American Review of Canadian Studies, has published widely on contemporary Canadian literature and culture, and received the Rufus Z. Smith Prize for an article on Marion Engels. Her most recent work appears in the essay collection, Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassinations. Mark J. Kasoff is director of Canadian studies and professor of economics at Bowling Green State University. His research interests include Canadian direct investment in the United States, Canada-U.S. trade flows and NAFTA, and comparative business costs between Canada and the United States. Rick Farmer is director of committee staff at the Oklahoma House of Representatives. He has written and taught about campaigns and elections, political parties, and term limits. John C. Green is the director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron, as well as a professor of political science. He has done and written extensive research on American religion and politics, political parties, and campaign finance.

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ISBN 13	9780525475064
ISBN 10	0525475060
Title	Looking for Alaska
Author	John Green
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2005-03-03
Number of pages	240
Prizes	Winner of Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award., Winner of Michael L. Printz Award Winner.
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