Inventing Elliot - Hardcover

Gardner, Graham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1842552635 ISBN 13: 9781842552636

Verlag: Orion Childrens, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Physical description; 183 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects; Bullies - Fiction. High schools - Fiction. Schools - Fiction. Family problems - Fiction. Self-realization - Fiction.

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"Graham's Gardner's first novel¿is tight and assured, and marks the arrival of an important new talent. The theme is not new, but the journey the story takes always surprises and sometimes shocks with its intensity." (Wendy Cooling The Bookseller, 20 December 2002)

"Once you start, you will not be able to put this gripping and gritty read down!" (The Sunday Times, 2 March 2003)

"¿a moving and subtle story...beautifully but unflashily [written]" (Adele Geras The Guardian, 15 March 2003)

"¿fresh and compelling" (Lindsey Fraser The Guardian Education, 18 March 2003)

"It's no mean feat to invoke reader' sympathy, fear, curiosity and fury simultaneously but Gardner achieves just that in a compulsively readable story with huge appeal" (Time Out, 19-26 March 2003)

"¿a first novel which grips from the start¿brings to mind Cormier's The Chocolate War¿makes riveting reading" (Children's Bookseller, 21 March 2003)

"A taut and compelling novel" (Financial Times, April 2003)

"The vocabulary and writing style are fresh, fluent and well tailored to the target audience¿.Elliot's thoughts are presented with such vivid candour as to grip the reader from page one" (Elliot Ross, Age 16 The Herald, 5 April 2003)

"¿taut with menace from the very first page¿powerfully plotted, compactly written" (Dinah Hall Sunday Telegraph, 20 April 2003)

"Gardner has produced an extraordinary novel, one which is powerful and intense¿You feel every moment of Elliot's agonies and anguish thanks to the powerful use of language and imagery and the sheer intensity of the plot. I couldn't put this book down¿Each twist and turn, each revelation, brings a surprise. It is a real gem." (Birmingham Post, 3 May 2003)

Reseña del editor:

Elliot was beaten up by bullies at his old school. He is determined to reinvent himself at the new school. This time he will be so cool that no one will touch him.

But he is too successful. He is taken up by the Guardians, the mysterious group who control the whole school, manipulating others to create a reign of terror. He is invited to become a Guardian himself and goes along with it. He is not going to get hurt again, whatever it takes. Until he realizes that he is as good as dead unless he takes the risk of standing up for himself.

Written with great power and economy, this psychological novel was inspired by George Orwell's 1984 and is reminiscent of those two great children's writers Robert Cormier and Robert Westall. It has strong characters, strong moral dilemmas and a story that moves at a great pace to a highly dramatic ending. It is an incisive and compelling look at the terrors and rituals of adolescence and you're there with Elliot every step of the way.

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• Verlag: Orion Childrens
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1842552635
• ISBN 13: 9781842552636
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192