The Island of Excess Love

Author:   Francesca Lia Block ,  Francesca Lia Block
Publisher:   Henry Holt & Company
ISBN:  

9780805096316


Pages:   214
Publication Date:   26 August 2014
Recommended Age:   From 14 to 18 years
Format:   Hardback
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The Island of Excess Love


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This companion to Love in the Time of Global Warming follows Pen as she searches for love among the ruins, this time using Virgil's epic Aeneid as her guide. A powerful and stunning book filled with Francesca Lia Block's beautiful language and inspiring characters. In The Island of Excess Love, Pen has lost her parents. She's lost her eye. But she has fought Kronen; she has won back her fragile friends and her beloved brother. Now Pen, Hex, Ash, Ez, and Venice are living in the pink house by the sea, getting by on hard work, companionship, and dreams. Until the day a foreboding ship appears in the harbor across from their home. As soon as the ship arrives, they all start having strange visions of destruction and violence. Trance-like, they head for the ship and their new battles begin.

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Author:   Francesca Lia Block ,  Francesca Lia Block
Publisher:   Henry Holt & Company
Imprint:   Henry Holt & Company
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 18.50cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9780805096316


ISBN 10:   0805096310
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   26 August 2014
Recommended Age:   From 14 to 18 years
Audience:   Young adult ,  Teenage / Young adult
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Praise for Love in the Time of Global Warming * A post-apocalyptic setting awash with danger brings an exhilarating twist to Block's signature mashup of rock-and-roll urchins and high literature. . . . Literary-minded readers will enjoy teasing out the allusions to Homer . . . but knowledge of the classics is not a requirement to be swept up in the tatterdemalion beauty of the story's lavish, looping language. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review The juxtapositions, too, are pulled off flawlessly: the disgusting, deathly, anxious, and devastating are, improbably--through Pen's astute eyes--also beautiful, lively, serene, and hopeful. Block achieves these and other heroic literary feats in this sophisticated melding of post-apocalyptic setting, re-imagined classic, and her signature magical realism. -- The Horn Book Magic is no stranger to Block's world, nor is her signature poetic sensibility. And love, in its many varieties and forms, is celebrated, as always. -- Booklist The dreamlike quality of the writing, typical of the author's works, functions well with the fantastical elements of the story. . . . This is an excellent title for students who have read Homer's Odyssey as well as readers who enjoy a mix of fantasy and reality. -- School Library Journal * Block writes about the real Los Angeles better than anyone since Raymond Chandler. -- The New York Times Book Review Hers is a voice so unique that nobody will ever be able to imitate it. --Cindy Dobrez, chairwoman of the committee that awarded Block the Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 Praise for Pink Smog: Becoming Weetzie * Newcomers and longtime fans alike will find much to savor in this nuanced meditation on what is lost, and what is gained, in the process of becoming an artist. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review* An intoxicating mix of mystery, fantasy, and romance told in her signature poetic style and peopled by guardian angels, w


Praise for The Island of Excess Love The language and imagery are beautiful but haunting . . . For fans of the first book, this will be a treat. - School Library Journal Praise for Love in the Time of Global Warming * A post-apocalyptic setting awash with danger brings an exhilarating twist to Block's signature mashup of rock-and-roll urchins and high literature. . . . Literary-minded readers will enjoy teasing out the allusions to Homer . . . but knowledge of the classics is not a requirement to be swept up in the tatterdemalion beauty of the story's lavish, looping language. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review The juxtapositions, too, are pulled off flawlessly: the disgusting, deathly, anxious, and devastating are, improbably--through Pen's astute eyes--also beautiful, lively, serene, and hopeful. Block achieves these and other heroic literary feats in this sophisticated melding of post-apocalyptic setting, re-imagined classic, and her signature magical realism. -- The Horn Book Magic is no stranger to Block's world, nor is her signature poetic sensibility. And love, in its many varieties and forms, is celebrated, as always. -- Booklist The dreamlike quality of the writing, typical of the author's works, functions well with the fantastical elements of the story. . . . This is an excellent title for students who have read Homer's Odyssey as well as readers who enjoy a mix of fantasy and reality. -- School Library Journal * Block writes about the real Los Angeles better than anyone since Raymond Chandler. -- The New York Times Book Review Hers is a voice so unique that nobody will ever be able to imitate it. --Cindy Dobrez, chairwoman of the committee that awarded Block the Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 Praise for Pink Smog: Becoming Weetzie * Newcomers and longtime fans alike will find much to savor in this nuanced meditation on what is lost, and what is gained, in the process of becominga


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Francesca Lia Block, winner of the prestigious Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, is the author of many acclaimed and bestselling books, including Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books, Roses and Bones: Myths, Tales and Secrets, and the adult novel The Elementals. Her work has been translated and published around the world. She lives in Los Angeles with her two children.

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