Summary
From Neil Smith, author of the award-winning, internationally acclaimed story collection Bang Crunch, comes a dark but whimsical debut novel about starting over in the afterlife in the vein of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones.
When Oliver ‘Boo’ Dalrymple wakes up in heaven, the eighth-grade science geek thinks he died of a heart defect at his school. But soon after arriving in this hereafter reserved for dead thirteen-year-olds, Boo discovers he’s a ‘gommer’, a kid wh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099592389 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009959238X |
| Author: | Neil Smith |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Windmill Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2015 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
The literary sleeper hit of the summer…Part-mystery, part-coming-of-age story with elements of Lord Of The Flies and The Lovely Bones, it’s becoming one of those word-of-mouth titles that will suddenly be everywhere…It’s brave and unusual and warm and funny and heartening and heartbreaking. * Stylist *
[Boo] brims with vitality…Original, wickedly funny and avoiding overt sentimentality, Smith’s writing is consistently assured. * Financial Times *
The novel is alive from the outset. Town is a captivating landscape, far away from Hollywood notions of heaven…Magical in its setting and plot, there is also a strong element of fable to the book. * Irish Times *
[A] funny, dark, disarming novel. * Sunday Express *
Affecting and thought provoking…Boo is an unusual and surprising novel that should spark plenty of debate. * The Herald *
Instantly charming, never predictable, quietly profound—Boo is both literarily and literally haunting and, in the end, devastating. – Bryan Lee O’Malley, author of Seconds and the Scott Pilgrim series
[A] darkly whimsical debut. * Shortlist *
Part murder mystery, part existential adventure, Boo is an utter charm-bomb of a novel. Neil Smith’s version of the sweet hereafter shows not only that heaven can be hell, but answers the eternal question of whether it’s better to be dumber with friends or smarter without. – Zsuzsi Gartner, author of Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
Neil Smith has created a heaven where the sadness and triumph of life aren’t flattened or diminished but heightened and intensified. Just like you always suspected it would be. Boo is sad, beautiful, heartbreaking and impossible to put down. – Andrew Kaufman, author of All My Friends Are Superheros and Born Weird
[A] touching, whimsical novel. * Grazia *
Neil Smith
Neil Smith is a French to English translator who lives in Montreal. His first book, the story collection Bang Crunch, was published around the world to critical acclaim and was chosen as one of the best books of the year by the Globe and Mail and the Washington Post. Boo is his first novel.
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