Turtles All the Way Down

Zusatztext 109272772 Informationen zum Autor John Green  is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of books including  Looking for Alaska ,  The Fault in Our Stars , and  Turtles All the Way Down . His books have received many accolades, including a Printz Medal, a Printz Honor, and an Edgar Award. John has twice been a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and was selected by  TIME  magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also the writer and host of the critically acclaimed podcast  The Anthropocene Reviewed.  With his brother, Hank, John has co-created many online video projects, including Vlogbrothers and the educational channel Crash Course. He lives with his family in Indianapolis, Indiana. You can visit John online at johngreenbooks.com. Klappentext FEATURED ON 60 MINUTES and FRESH AIR "So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung." - The New York Times Named a best book of the year by: The New York Times, NPR, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Southern Living, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, A.V. Club, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Vulture, and many more! JOHN GREEN, the acclaimed author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, returns with a story of shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship. Aza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett's son Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. ONE At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time—between 12:37 p.m. and 1:14 p.m.—by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn’t even begin to identify them. If those forces had given me a different lunch period, or if the tablemates who helped author my fate had chosen a different topic of conversation that September day, I would’ve met a different end—or at least a different middle. But I was -beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to. You think, I now choose to go to lunch , when that monotone beep rings from on high at 12:37. But really, the bell decides. You think you’re the painter, but you’re the canvas. Hundreds of voices were shouting over one another in the cafeteria, so that the conversation became mere sound, the rushing of a river over rocks. And as I sat beneath fluorescent cylinders spewing aggressively artificial light, I thought about how we all believed ourselves to be the hero of some personal epic, when in fact we were basically identical organisms colonizing a vast and windowless room that smelled of Lysol and lard. I was eating a peanut butter and honey sandwich and drinking a Dr Pepper. To be honest, I find the whole process of masticating plants and animals and then shoving them down my esophagus kind of disgusting, so I was trying not to think about the fact that I was eating, which is a form of thinking about it. Across the table from me, Mychal Turner was scribbling in a yellow-paper notebook. Our lunch table was like a long-running play on Broadway: The cast changed over the years, but the roles never did. Mychal was The Artsy One. He was talking with Daisy Ramirez, who’d played the role of my Best and Most Fearless Frien...

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A sometimes heartbreaking, always illuminating, glimpse into how it feels to live with mental illness.    NPR

A New York Times Notable Book  A New York Times Critics Top Book of the Year   An NPR Best Book of the Year   A TIME Best Book of the Year  A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year  A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year  An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year   A Seventeen Best Book of the Year  A Southern Living Best Book of the Year  A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year  A Booklist Editors' Choice Selection A BookPage Best Book of the Year   An SLJ Best Book of the Year   An A.V. Club Best Book of the Year   A Bustle Best Book of the Year  A BuzzFeed Best Book of the Year  A Pop Sugar Best Book of the Year   A Vulture Best Book of the Year 

#1 New York Times Bestseller  #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller  #1 International Bestseller

Featured on 60 Minutes, Fresh Air, Studio 360, Good Morning America, The TODAY Show

A tender story about learning to cope when the world feels out of control.   People

Green finds the language to describe the indescribable. . . . A must-read for those struggling with mental illness, or for their friends and family. San Francisco Chronicle

A powerful tale for teens (and adults) about anxiety, love and friendship.   The Los Angeles Times

Wrenching and Revelatory.   The New York Times

Tender, wise, and hopeful.   The Wall Street Journal

A new modern classic.   The Guardian

A thoughtful look at mental illness and a debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder that doesn t ask but makes you feel the constant struggles of its main character.   USA Today

Turtles delivers a lesson that we so desperately need right now: Yes, it is okay not to be okay . John Green has crafted a dynamic novel that is deeply honest, sometimes painful, and always thoughtful.   Mashable

Green does more than write about; he endeavours to write inside . No matter where you are on the spiral and we re all somewhere Green s novel makes the trip, either up or down, a less solitary experience.   The Globe and Mail

This novel is by far [Green s] most difficult to read. It s also his most astonishing. . . . So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung. . . . One needn t be suffering like Aza to identify with it. One need only be human.   Jennifer Senior, The New York Times

Green s most authentic and most ambitious work to date.   Bustle

An existential teenage scream.   Vox

Funny, clever, and populated with endearing characters.   Entertainment Weekly

An incredibly powerful tale of the pain of mental illness, the pressures of youth, and coming of age when you feel like you re coming undone.   Shelf Awareness

  A richly rewarding read the most mature of Green s work to date and deserving of all the accolades that are sure to come its way.   Booklist

  In an age where troubling events happen almost weekly, this deeply empathetic novel about learning to live with demons and love one s imperfect self is timely and important.   Publishers Weekly

  A deeply resonant and powerful novel that will inform and enlighten readers even as it breaks their hearts. A must-buy.   School Library Journal
 
Praise for John Green

- 50 million books in print worldwide -
 
#1 New York Times Bestseller
#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller
#1 USA Today Bestseller
#1 International Bestseller

Michael L. Printz Award Winner
Michael L. Printz Honor Winner
 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
 TIME 100 Most Influential People
Forbes Celebrity 100
NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels
 TIME Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time

Critical acclaim for The Fault in Our Stars:
 
Damn near genius . . . The Fault in Our Stars is a love story, one of the most genuine and moving ones in recent American fiction, but it s also an existential tragedy of tremendous intelligence and courage and sadness. Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine
 
This is a book that breaks your heart not by wearing it down, but by making it bigger until it bursts. The Atlantic
 
Remarkable . . . A pitch-perfect, elegiac comedy.   USA Today

[Green s] voice is so compulsively readable that it defies categorization. You will be thankful for the little infinity you spend inside this book.   NPR.org

John Green deftly mixes the profound and the quotidian in this tough, touching valentine to the human spirit.   The Washington Post 
 
[Green] shows us true love two teenagers helping and accepting each other through the most humiliating physical and emotional ordeals and it is far more romantic than any sunset on the beach.   New York Times Book Review

Product details

• Authors: John Green, Penguin Random House
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 14
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2017
• EAN: 9780525555360
• ISBN: 978-0-525-55536-0
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 211 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age