Phoebe Will Destroy You
Published on 18. June 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-4814-8817-4 (ISBN)
Description
From the author of Girl, Boy, and Paranoid Park comes a new novel about the obsessive vortex of falling in love in an impossible time and place.
The summer I was seventeen I met this girl…
Nick has the best of moms and the worst of moms. On the upside, she's a distinguished professor and bestselling author. On the downside, she's a serious alcoholic, with no clue how to relate to her son or husband.
Nick, meanwhile, has finished his junior year and needs a break from his stressful home life. What better place to spend the summer than Seaside, Oregon, a sleepy beach town where he can chill out, meet girls, and work at his Uncle's car wash.
Enter local legend, Phoebe Garnet. She's funny, sexy, but dangerously self-destructive. Suddenly Nick is more in love, more obsessed, more heartsick than he's ever been in his life.
Why does Nick love her so much? Will he survive this obsession? And who can he turn to for help?
From the author of the classic novels Girl and Paranoid Park comes a story of the joy, the pain, and the madness of growing up.
The summer I was seventeen I met this girl…
Nick has the best of moms and the worst of moms. On the upside, she's a distinguished professor and bestselling author. On the downside, she's a serious alcoholic, with no clue how to relate to her son or husband.
Nick, meanwhile, has finished his junior year and needs a break from his stressful home life. What better place to spend the summer than Seaside, Oregon, a sleepy beach town where he can chill out, meet girls, and work at his Uncle's car wash.
Enter local legend, Phoebe Garnet. She's funny, sexy, but dangerously self-destructive. Suddenly Nick is more in love, more obsessed, more heartsick than he's ever been in his life.
Why does Nick love her so much? Will he survive this obsession? And who can he turn to for help?
From the author of the classic novels Girl and Paranoid Park comes a story of the joy, the pain, and the madness of growing up.
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Edition
Reprint ed.
Language
English
Target group
Young adult
US School Grade: Ninth Grade and over, Interest Age: From 14 to 17 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
218 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4814-8817-4 (9781481488174)
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Blake Nelson
Phoebe Will Destroy You
E-Book
06/2018
Simon Pulse;Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
€8.89
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Blake Nelson is the author of many young adult novels, including Recovery Road (now a TV series), the coming-of-age classic Girl, Boy, Phoebe Will Destroy You, and Paranoid Park, which was made into a film by Gus Van Sant. He lives in Portland, Oregon.