Slingshot - True love has the worst aim
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| Verlag | Macmillan Publishers International |
| Alter | ab 12 Jahre |
| Auflage | 2021 |
| Seiten | 352 |
| Format | 17,2 x 2,3 x 19,8 cm |
| B-format paperback | |
| Gewicht | 234 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781529058185 |
| Bestell-Nr | 52905818UA |
True love has the worst aim in this darkly funny tale of a boy and a girl who find each other and then screw it all up.
Acidly funny and compulsively readable, Mercedes Helnwein's debut novel Slingshot is a story about two people finding each other and then screwing it all up. See also: soulmate, friendship, stupidity, sex, bad poetry, and all the indignities of being in love for the first time.
Grace Welles had resigned herself to the particular loneliness of being fifteen and stuck at a third-tier boarding school in the swamps of Florida, when she accidentally saves the new kid in her class from being beaten up. With a single aim of a slingshot, the monotonous mathematics of her life are obliterated forever...because now there is a boy in it that she never asked for. Wade Scholfield.
With Wade, Grace discovers a new way to exist. School rules are optional, life is bizarrely perfect, and conversations about wormholes can lead to make-out sessions that disrupt any logical stream of thought.
So why does Grace crush Wade's heart into a million tiny pieces? And what are her op tions when she finally realizes that 1. The universe doesn't revolve around her, and 2. Wade has been hiding a dark secret? Is Grace the only person unhinged enough to save him?
Eleanor and Park meets Ladybird in this outstanding debut novel.
Rezension:
All the terror and wonder of that first true love, masterfully detailed with true emotional rigor and blinding wit. My fifteen-year-old self wants to scream into a pillow with joy. David Yoon, New York Times bestselling author of Frankly in Love
