Revolution - Hardcover

Donnelly, Jennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408801523 ISBN 13: 9781408801529

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2010

Synopsis

Andi lives in New York and is dealing with the emotional turmoil of her younger brother's accidental death. Alex lives in Paris and is a companion to the dauphin, the young son of Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI, during the violent days of the French Revolution. When Andi is sent to Paris to get her out of the trouble she's so easily enveloped by in New York, their two stories collide, and Andi finds a way to reconcile herself not only to her past but also to her future. This is a heart-wrenchingly beautiful, evocative portrait of lives torn apart by grief and mended by love.

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Review

`Intelligent, absorbing and original . . . my book of the month - if not the year'
--Fiona Noble, The Bookseller

`I started the book late one night, planning to just read a chapter to give me a taste of it before heading off to bed. Eight chapters later I was still reading, engrossed in the story . . . Donnelly's writing is amazing, with so much detail that I really felt like I was right there in Paris' --A Trillion Books

`I cannot think of the last time that I encountered such skilled storytelling as that which I have found in Revolution. Jennifer Donnelly is gifted in her ability not only to immerse the reader in history but also to write stunning contemporary fiction'
--The Mountains of Instead

`The story shows spoilt Andy growing into maturity and empathy, and the diary of the Terror is gripping. A pacy adventure for older readers, with appropriately salty language'
--The Financial Times

`A spellbinding tale of two cities and two eras . . . it gripped me for two days of fear, admiration and delight' --Reader's Digest

`Rich and ambitious . . . A great example of young adult fiction: beautifully written and thoroughly researched . . . there is an emotional vividness and a delight in story that will speak strongly to teenagers' --Guardian, Saturday Review

`Donnelly covers much ground and some big themes . . . with such a complex intertextual mix it could easily have gone horribly wrong, but Donnelly does it well: this was a book I was sad to finish'
--Guardian, Saturday Review

`A gripping if gritty read for teenagers . . . powerful, beautifully written and all absorbing, and on the way the reader learns a great deal about the Revolution'

--Spectator

`Meaty and brave, witty and clever' --Literary Review

`A sophisticated, crossover novel . . . This is a haunting, dark, complex mystery, leavened by flashes of humour, about the redemptive power of love and (in the other sense of "revolution") the ways in which things come round. This historical novel demonstrates that, however technology changes, good story-telling endures'
--Sunday Times

Book Description

Nominated for the Carnegie Award 2012

Two girls united in a quest to save a young prince, but separated by over two hundred years

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1408801523
• ISBN 13: 9781408801529
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 496