More Than This - Hardcover

Ness, Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0763662585 ISBN 13: 9780763662585

Publisher: Candlewick Pr, 2013

Synopsis

From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the life -- or perhaps afterlife -- of a teen trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world.

A boy named Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. So how is he here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighborhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely abandoned. What's going on? And why is it that whenever he closes his eyes, he falls prey to vivid, agonizing memories that seem more real than the world around him? Seth begins a search for answers, hoping that he might not be alone, that this might not be the hell he fears it to be, that there might be more than just this. . . .

About this title

Review:

Ness brilliantly plays with contrasts: life and death, privacy and exposure, guilt and innocence. In characteristic style, the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy delves into the stuff of nightmares for an existential exploration of the human psyche.
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Books are often described as 'mind-blowing, ' but this is one of the few books in which, while reading it, I have exclaimed aloud, 'Oh. My. God.' on multiple occasions. I won't tell you anything else about it. Just read it.
--John Green

It is a gorgeous story with masterful pacing and unforgettable passages.
--The Boston Globe

Book Description:

An enthralling and provocative new novel from the acclaimed author of the Chaos Walking trilogy and A Monster Calls.

About this edition

• Publisher: Candlewick Pr
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0763662585
• ISBN 13: 9780763662585
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 472