Full Product Details
Author: Hollis Seamon ,
Noah Galvin
Publisher: HighBridge Audio
Imprint: HighBridge Audio
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9781665158404
ISBN 10: 1665158409
Publication Date: 03 September 2013
Recommended Age: From 14 years
Audience:
Young adult
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
A tender, insightful, and unsentimental look at two teens in extremis. It brings light to a very dark place and, in so doing, does its readers a generous service. -- Booklist Each character is vividly drawn, with a sharp, memorable voice that readers will love and remember...A fresh, inspiring story. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Galvin's narration captures the novel's conversational, storytelling style and creates a compelling, unsentimental listening experience. -- Booklist (audio review) Heartfelt...The language is raw and even profane at times, but hardly inappropriate given the circumstances...This novel is respectful of its serious subject matter, yet is an entertaining and heartening read. -- School Library Journal Narrator Noah Galvin doesn't hold back on Richie's dark, sarcastic tone, especially as he sneers at the sappy harpist whose music 'seems a bit premature, ' especially for dying teenagers like him and Sylvie. When fifteen-year-old Sylvie tells him she doesn't want to die a virgin, a smile hovers in Galvin's voice as Richie realizes it's never too late to turn into the popular guy and life is 'all about surprises.' Galvin also portrays the tender Sylvie and the nurses who care and grieve for the dying, but they form an emotional backdrop. Galvin keeps Richie in the foreground, noting his wonder, and anger, with heartbreaking intensity. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award. -- AudioFile Readers will alternate between shaking their heads at his self-centeredness, laughing at his smart mouth, and reaching for tissues as Richard really learns what it means to grow up...Emotions are raw and painful, but the story is a powerful and life-affirming look at what it means to grow up as your life is ending. -- VOYA
Author Information
Hollis Seamon is a recipient of a fiction fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a professor of English at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, and also teaches in the MFA creative writing program at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. Noah Galvin has performed in numerous regional and off-Broadway plays, including performances in Yosemite, Treasure Island, Our Town, and Broadway Kids. Also a narrator, he has read books by Stephen Chbosky and Matthew Quick, among others.
