Looking For Alaska. John Green
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Название: Looking For Alaska
Автор: John Green
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Учебная литература
isbn: 9780007369683
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First published in the USA by Dutton Books, 2005
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd,
1 London Bridge Street,
London SE1 9GF
This edition published in 2015
Looking for Alaska
Text copyright © John Green 2005
Additional content for this edition © John Green, 2015
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780008120924
Ebook Edition © 2014 ISBN: 9780007369683
Version: 2019-10-10
Pages 24 and 191-192: Excerpt from The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez
Page 107: Poetry quote from “As I Walked Out One Evening” by W. H. Auden
Page 111: Poetry quote from “Not So Far as the Forest” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
To my family, Sydney Green, Mike Green and Hank Green.
“I have tried so hard to do right.”
(last words of President Grover Cleveland)
Contents
Copyright
Text Credit
Dedication
Introduction
Before
One Hundred Thirty-Six Days Before
After
The Day After
Some Last Words on Last Words
Deleted Scenes
Opening Scenes
Original Draft Opening, August 2003
Original First Meeting, August 2003
The Funeral
Original Funeral, August 2003
Funeral, Revision Delivered January 2004
Funeral, Revision Delivered March 2004
“Before & After” Counting Alaska’s Days
Q & A with John Green
Alaska, Ten Years Later: A Literary Retrospective by Michael Cart
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by John Green
About the Publisher
It is a funny business, to introduce a book you published ten years ago. In some ways, I am the least qualified person to write this—for one thing, authors are notoriously poor when it comes to assessing their own work (nothing makes me shudder more than hearing an author friend tell me, “I’ve just written my best book yet”). For another, I last read Looking for Alaska in January, 2005, so among almost everyone who has ever read the book, my memories are the most distant.
Looking for Alaska began for me in September of 2001. I was working at Booklist magazine as an editorial assistant and occasional book reviewer, and one of my editors, the children’s book author Ilene Cooper, was encouraging me to actually write the semi-autobiographical boarding school story I’d been pitching to her for years. She even gave me a deadline: March 1, 2002.
Then on September 11, the World Trade Center was attacked. A few days later, my girlfriend, with whom I’d been living for a couple years, broke up with me. I descended into an intense period of depression, eventually taking a leave of absence from my job at Booklist to focus on getting my mental health straightened out. On my last day at the magazine, the publisher Bill Ott wrote me a brief note: “Expect to see you back here in a couple weeks. Eat, get healthy, and—now more than ever—watch Harvey.” Bill had been bugging me to see this old movie, Harvey, for years.
My dad drove me home to Orlando, where I hadn’t really СКАЧАТЬ