Cercando Alaska

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John Green: Cercando Alaska (Italian language, 2006, Fabbri)

344 pages

Italian language

Published Sept. 16, 2006 by Fabbri.

ISBN:
978-88-451-1876-0
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OCLC Number:
799334645

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5 stars (1 review)

Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . . After. Nothing is ever the same

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