Eleanor & Park
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Dois inadaptados. Um amor extraordinário. Eleanor é uma miúda nova na escola, vinda de outra cidade. A sua vida familiar é um caos; sendo gorda e ruiva, e com a sua forma esquisita de se vestir, atrai a atenção de todos em seu redor, nem sempre pelos melhores motivos. Park é um rapaz meio coreano. Não é propriamente popular, mas vestido de negro e sempre isolado na música através dos seus fones e livros, conseguiu tornar-se invisível. Tudo começa por ser diferente quando Park acede a que Eleanor se sente ao lado dele no autocarro da escola.
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Half-Korean sophomore Park Sheridan is getting through high school by lying low, listening to the Smiths (it's 1986), reading Alan Moore's Watchmen comics, never raising his hand in class, and avoiding the kids he grew up with. Then new girl Eleanor gets on the bus. Tall, with bright red hair and a dress code all her own, she's an instant target. Too nice not to let her sit next to him, Park is alternately resentful and guilty for not being kinder to her. When he realizes she's reading his comics over his shoulder, a silent friendship is born. And slowly, tantalizingly, something more. Adult author Rowell (Attachments), making her YA debut, has a gift for showing what Eleanor and Park, who tell the story in alternating segments, like and admire about each other. Their love is believable and thrilling, but it isn't simple: Eleanor's family is broke, and her stepfather abuses her mother. When the situation turns dangerous, Rowell keeps things surprising, and the solution imperfect but believable maintains the novel's delicate balance of light and dark. Ages 13 up.
