Adios, Nirvana
Jonathan barely survives the death of his twin in this gritty novel with an unforgettable voice. When you piss off a bridge into a snowstorm, it feels like you’re connecting with eternal things . . . But who? The Druids? Walt Whitman? No, I pay homage to one person only, my brother, my twin. In...
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Jonathan barely survives the death of his twin in this gritty novel with an unforgettable voice. When you piss off a bridge into a snowstorm, it feels like you’re connecting with eternal things . . . But who? The Druids? Walt Whitman? No, I pay homage to one person only, my brother, my twin. In life. In death. Telemachus. Since the death of his brother, Jonathan’s been losing his grip on reality. Last year’s Best Young Poet is now Taft High School’s resident tortured artist, when he bothers to show up. But his English teacher, his principal, and his crew of friends won’t sit back and let him fail.
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780547368955 (054736895X)
ASIN: 9780547368955
Publish date: 25-10-2010
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
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I liked this book, though it (the narrator? the author?) comes across as a bit self-important. You know, like when you talk too long to that douchey hipster at a party.
Among my favorite movies are Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous and Elizabeth Town... Relevance? These are what Adios, Nirvana reminds me of. In fact, the two things things that I enjoyed the most about these movies and this book are Music and heart. Now, I know next to nothing about music. I sing off-ke...
Excellent YA fiction set in Seattle, with imperfect characters trying to make sense of lives shattered by the death of a brother/son/friend. The narrator is on the brink of suicide, thinking that it's the only way he'll be reunited with the twin brother that he has recently lost to an accident. Str...
Losing someone you truly love is probably the most tragic event that could happen in a person’s life. It is even harder when the one who was taken away was the one you looked up to, shared your passions with and whom you confided in. This is what happened to Jonathan – this is the story of his life,...
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