Paranoid Park - Hardcover

Nelson, Blake

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670061182 ISBN 13: 9780670061181

Publisher: Viking Childrens Books, 2006

Synopsis

When he accidentally kills a security guard in self-defense, a scared teenager, realizing that no one even knows he was at Paranoid Park, wonders if he should confess, even though he has no alibi or witnesses--or pretend it never happened.

About this title

About the Author:

Blake grew up in Portland, Oregon.

His first love was books but he spent several years in his teens and twenties playing in bands.

Blake's first writing job was at Details magazine, where he wrote short humor pieces on the slacker lifestyle. His fiction remained unpublished until Sassy Magazine (cool girl magazine from the 90s) began publishing excerpts from his first novel.

These excerpts generated enough response to get his first novel GIRL published by Simon and Schuster. GIRL (1994) has since been translated into six foreign languages and was made into a feature film.

After GIRL, Blake published two more adult novels, EXILE (1997) and USER (2001). In 2003 he decided to try a Young Adult novel, (a book specifically for teens) and wrote THE NEW RULES OF HIGH SCHOOL. Since then he has published five YA novels, NEW RULES, ROCKSTAR SUPERSTAR, PROM ANONYMOUS, GENDER BLENDER, and PARANOID PARK.

His books have won numerous awards and continue to be translated around the world. A TV movie for GENDER BLENDER is currently in development at Nickelodeon. And PARANOID PARK, is being made into a film by Gus Van Sant and MK2 Productions.

Blake Nelson currently lives with his wife in Brooklyn, NY.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Childrens Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0670061182
• ISBN 13: 9780670061181
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176