The Boy and Girl Who Broke The World
$17.34
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2019
Summary
‘Tinges of the supernatural add to the electric sense of place in a caustic and original novel’ Financial Times
Billy Sloat and Lydia Lemon don’t have much in common, unless you count growing up on the same (wrong) side of the tracks, the lack of a mother, and a persistent loneliness that has inspired creative coping mechanisms.
When the lives of these two loners are thrust together, Lydia’s cynicism is met with Billy’s sincere optimism, and both begin to question their own ou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349003405 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349003408 |
| Author: | Amy Reed |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | ATOM |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 32mm |
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Critics Review
The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World is gritty, gutsy, and ferociously strange. Amy Reed offers us a surreal yet oddly familiar world teetering on the edge of destruction and offers hopeful and inventive ways to survive the pain and salvage our dreams. This story is powerful and unique, and I envied its wild and irreverent vision to pieces. - Nova Ren Suma, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Walls Around Us
Billy [is] a delightful creation … there’s a wickedly funny parody … Tinges of the supernatural add to the electric sense of place in a caustic and original novel. - Financial TimesAbout The Author
Amy Reed
Amy Reed is the author of the contemporary young adult novels Beautiful, Clean, Crazy, Over You, Damaged, Invincible, Unforgivable, and The Nowhere Girls. She is also the editor of Our Stories, Our Voices. She is a feminist, mother, and quadruple Virgo who enjoys running, making lists, and wandering around the mountains of western North Carolina where she lives.
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