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Elsewhere

Elsewhere( )
Author: Zevin, Gabrielle
ISBN:978-0-7475-8034-8
Publication Date:Sep 2005
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:Bloomsbury Children's Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $15.95
Book Description:

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. Fullof the most ingenious detail and woven around the most touching...
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Book Details
Pages:288
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Death, Grief, Bereavement
Juvenile Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):12.7 x 19.9 cm
Book Weight:0.28 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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