Elsewhere (Audio)
In many ways, Elsewhere is out of this world. Within this pleasant, inviting place, so much like Earth, no one gets sick or grows old. In fact, everyone is growing younger. For 15-year-old Liz Hall, who arrives in Elsewhere after her demise, aging backward is not a happy prospect. Like any living...
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In many ways, Elsewhere is out of this world. Within this pleasant, inviting place, so much like Earth, no one gets sick or grows old. In fact, everyone is growing younger. For 15-year-old Liz Hall, who arrives in Elsewhere after her demise, aging backward is not a happy prospect. Like any living teenager, she wants to turn 16, not 14; yearns to fall in love, not reenter infancy. Gabrielle Zevin's first teen novel about being dead offers keen insights about living.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780307282415 (0307282414)
Publish date: October 11th 2005
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)
Edition language: English
Loved this book! I just about cried twice, but had to restrain myself since I was reading in public. Beautiful.
Elsewhere is my favourite book of all time. I've read a lot of books in my days, and this is the book that I keep coming back to.I'm glad I read it when I was younger, however, as I think if I were to pick it up as an adult it wouldn't quite speak to me the way it did then. Despite no longer being a...
Borrowing on the premise of 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' (and that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery), this is a story of age regression, only that it takes places in the afterlife, in a place called Elsewhere. Each decedent arrives at this place at the age which they passed and l...
Liz is 15 when she dies. Upon her death, she winds up in Elsewhere, the place where all the dead end up. Elsewhere is very similar to the living world, but people age backwards there. You arrive at the age you died at and slowly get younger until you become a baby again and are sent back to the worl...
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