Describe Books As Elsewhere
Original Title: | Elsewhere |
Edition Language: | English |
Characters: | Elizabeth Marie Hall, Thandiwe Washington, Betty Bloom, Curtis Jest, Aldous Ghent, Olivia Bloom Hall, Lucy, Alvy Hall, Coco, Captain Welles, Florence, Doris, Myrna, Mrs. Early, Reginald Christopher Doral Monmount Harris the Third, Owen Welles, Emily Reilly Welles, Josh, Shelly, Dr. Frederick, Phyllis, Zooey Ann Brandon, Yetta Brown, Rowena Ghent, Sarah Miles, Esther, Arthur Hall, Edward, Dr. Fujiyama, Arnold, Amadou Bonamy, Josey Wu, Sadie, Jen, Paco, Pete, Beneatha, Allie Reilly, Joe, Owen, Dolly, Paul Scott Spencer |
Literary Awards: | Georgia Peach Book Award Nominee for Honor book (2006), Borders Original Voices Award for YA or Independent Reader (2005), Sakura Medal for High School Book (2007), California Young Readers Medal Nominee for Young Adult (2008), Lincoln Award Nominee (2011) Bronzener Lufti (2006), Ulmer Unke (2005) |
Gabrielle Zevin
Paperback | Pages: 277 pages Rating: 3.91 | 48115 Users | 5152 Reviews
Relation Concering Books Elsewhere
Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere's museums. Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroe's psychiatric practice.Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her driver's license. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. And now that she's dead, Liz is being forced to live a life she doesn't want with a grandmother she has only just met. And it is not going well. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward?
This moving, often funny book about grief, death, and loss will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned.
Present Containing Books Elsewhere
Title | : | Elsewhere |
Author | : | Gabrielle Zevin |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 277 pages |
Published | : | May 15th 2007 by Square Fish (first published September 9th 2005) |
Categories | : | Young Adult. Fantasy. Fiction. Romance |
Rating Containing Books Elsewhere
Ratings: 3.91 From 48115 Users | 5152 ReviewsEvaluation Containing Books Elsewhere
You know what sucks?When you get 53 (YES, FIFTY THREE) pages into a book and realize that you've read it before. That blows.You know what doesn't suck?You really like said book. I mean, it's been a good 8 months, and I was still hazy about the plot throughout the whole book, but it's SUCH a good story that I didn't mind kinda knowing the plot. Liz is 15 and is a hit and run victim. She wakes up on the S.S. Nile (cute, huh?) and it takes her a bit but she finds out she's died and then ends up inFirstly I have to admit I read this because I needed an author whose name started with z for a challenge. This demonstrates clearly how good challenges can be for getting us to read books we might never otherwise come across. I was very happy that I read this book which is aimed at a Young Adult audience but is totally readable by any age.The story takes place in the afterlife, which is a place called Elsewhere. As a reader you need to suspend belief at this stage because the whole theory behind
Awesome. I love creative renditions of the afterlife, and seeing into the writer's imagination. This was a very whimsical, fascinating take on death and life - I loved the image of the tree: that life and death are like the roots and branches of a tree - neither can see the other, but they are both alive and connected. I loved the message that life after death is still real life, and that things move on, you keep growing, working and building relationships. The characters were great, especially
First read in March 2014Reread in July 2016Just as magical, if not more so, as the first time I read it. Probably a novel I will reread every few years or so.
*A Reading Roulette selection with the group A Million More Pages*Although I enjoyed the characters and their relationships, the story was a silly and often a ridiculous idea of the afterlife. It almost seemed like it was mocking life after death. I seriously doubt dead people eat, sleep, or have dog allergies. Aging backwards was interesting though.
In a way, there is something about Zevin's view of the afterlife reminds me of the Florida vacations from my childhood: a leisurely drive through one sunny, pleasant day after another. If that was all there was to it, I probably wouldn't recommend this book so highly, but Zevin's story of a girl's growth after her own mortal life ends is anything but simple. The recently deceased arrive in Elsewhere (as the afterlife is known) with the understanding that they will be aging backwards to the point
You know what sucks?When you get 53 (YES, FIFTY THREE) pages into a book and realize that you've read it before. That blows.You know what doesn't suck?You really like said book. I mean, it's been a good 8 months, and I was still hazy about the plot throughout the whole book, but it's SUCH a good story that I didn't mind kinda knowing the plot. Liz is 15 and is a hit and run victim. She wakes up on the S.S. Nile (cute, huh?) and it takes her a bit but she finds out she's died and then ends up in
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