Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
Autor Matthew Quicken Paperback – 30 iun 2014 – vârsta de la 15 ani
In
addition
to
the
P-38,
there
are
four
gifts,
one
for
each
of
my
friends.
I
want
to
say
good-bye
to
them
properly.
I
want
to
give
them
each
something
to
remember
me
by.
To
let
them
know
I
really
cared
about
them
and
I'm
sorry
I
couldn't
be
more
than
I
was--that
I
couldn't
stick
around--and
that
what's
going
to
happen
today
isn't
their
fault.
Today
is
Leonard
Peacock's
birthday.
It
is
also
the
day
he
will
kill
his
former
best
friend,
and
then
himself,
with
his
grandfather's
P-38
pistol.
Maybe
one
day
he'll
believe
that
being
different
is
okay,
important
even.
But
not
today.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316221351
ISBN-10: 031622135X
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group
Colecția Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN-10: 031622135X
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group
Colecția Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Notă biografică
Matthew
Quick
(aka
Q)
is
the
author
ofThe
Silver
Linings
Playbook(Sarah
Crichton
Books
/
Farrar,
Straus
&
Giroux)
and
three
young
adult
novels,Sorta
Like
a
Rock
Star,Boy21,
andForgive
Me,
Leonard
Peacock(Little,
Brown
&
Co.).
His
work
has
received
many
honors--including
a
PEN/Hemingway
Award
Honorable
Mention--been
translated
into
many
languages,
and
called
"beautiful...first-rate"
byThe
New
York
Times
Book
Review.
The
Weinstein
Company
and
David
O.
Russell
have
adaptedThe
Silver
Linings
Playbookinto
a
film
starring
Robert
De
Niro,
Bradley
Cooper,
and
Jennifer
Lawrence.
Matthew
lives
in
Massachusetts
with
his
wife,
novelist
Alicia
Bessette.
His
website
is
www.matthewquickwriter.com.
Recenzii
Publishers
WeeklyBest
Book
"Full disclosure: you might need tissues to make it throughLeonard Peacock, but even if you don't, you'll likely be touched by Leonard's story."—Entertainment Weekly
"At a time when bullying and gun violence is at the top of the national conversation, this novel servies as a literary segue for teens, parents and teachers into an open dialogue on sensitive topics."—USA Today
"If only Hollywood could get novelist Matthew Quick to write faster. Everything the Massachusetts-based writer pens seems to be scooped up by the studios as soon as the books are bound."—The Los Angeles Times
* "Quick's use of flashbacks, internal dialogue, and interpersonal communication is brilliant, and the suspense about what happened between Leonard and Asher builds tangibly. The masterful writing takes readers inside Leonard's tormented mind, enabling a compassionate response to him and to others dealing with trauma."—School Library Journal (starred review)
* "Quick's attentiveness to these few key relationships and encounters gives the story its strength and razorlike focus...Through Leonard, Quick urges readers to look beyond the pain of the here and now to the possibilities that await."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
" Over the course of one intense day (with flashbacks), Leonard's existential crisis is delineated through an engaging first-person narrative supplemented with footnotes and letters from the future that urge Leonard to believe in a "life beyond the übermorons" at school. Complicated characters and ideas remain complicated, with no facile resolutions, in this memorable story."—The Horn Book
"...the novel presents a host of compelling, well-drawn, realistic characters-all of whom want Leonard to make it through the day safe and sound."—Kirkus
"Quick is most interested in Leonard's psychology, which is simultaneously clear and splintered, and his voice, which is filled with brash humor, self-loathing, and bucket loads of refreshingly messy contradictions, many communicated through Leonard's footnotes to his own story. It may sound bleak, but it is, in fact, quite brave, and Leonard's interspersed fictional notes to himself from 2032 add a unique flavor of hope."—Booklist
"This is one of the most important books of our time."—A.S. King, Printz Honor author of Everybody Sees the Ants and Ask the Passengers
"Books
like
Quick's
are
necessary...We
should
be
grateful
for
a
book
that
gets
kids,
and
the
leaders
they'll
become,
thinking
about
the
problem
now."
—The
New
York
Times"Full disclosure: you might need tissues to make it throughLeonard Peacock, but even if you don't, you'll likely be touched by Leonard's story."—Entertainment Weekly
"At a time when bullying and gun violence is at the top of the national conversation, this novel servies as a literary segue for teens, parents and teachers into an open dialogue on sensitive topics."—USA Today
"If only Hollywood could get novelist Matthew Quick to write faster. Everything the Massachusetts-based writer pens seems to be scooped up by the studios as soon as the books are bound."—The Los Angeles Times
* "Quick's use of flashbacks, internal dialogue, and interpersonal communication is brilliant, and the suspense about what happened between Leonard and Asher builds tangibly. The masterful writing takes readers inside Leonard's tormented mind, enabling a compassionate response to him and to others dealing with trauma."—School Library Journal (starred review)
* "Quick's attentiveness to these few key relationships and encounters gives the story its strength and razorlike focus...Through Leonard, Quick urges readers to look beyond the pain of the here and now to the possibilities that await."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
" Over the course of one intense day (with flashbacks), Leonard's existential crisis is delineated through an engaging first-person narrative supplemented with footnotes and letters from the future that urge Leonard to believe in a "life beyond the übermorons" at school. Complicated characters and ideas remain complicated, with no facile resolutions, in this memorable story."—The Horn Book
"...the novel presents a host of compelling, well-drawn, realistic characters-all of whom want Leonard to make it through the day safe and sound."—Kirkus
"Quick is most interested in Leonard's psychology, which is simultaneously clear and splintered, and his voice, which is filled with brash humor, self-loathing, and bucket loads of refreshingly messy contradictions, many communicated through Leonard's footnotes to his own story. It may sound bleak, but it is, in fact, quite brave, and Leonard's interspersed fictional notes to himself from 2032 add a unique flavor of hope."—Booklist
"This is one of the most important books of our time."—A.S. King, Printz Honor author of Everybody Sees the Ants and Ask the Passengers
"Leonard's
life
teeters
dangerously
between
moments
of
pain
and
beauty.
A
fast
read,
because
Ineededto
keep
reading.
I
will
not
forget
Leonard
Peacock.
I
love
this
book."
—Jay
Asher,
#1
New
York
Times
bestselling
author
of
Thirteen
Reasons
Why
and
The
Future
of
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