An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Softcover

Green, Hank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1473224209 ISBN 13: 9781473224209

Publisher: Trapeze, 2019

Synopsis

If you came across an absolutely remarkable thing at 3 a.m. in New York City, would you walk away . . . or do the one thing that would change your life forever?

The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship - like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armour - April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world, and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the centre of an intense international media spotlight.

Now April has to deal with the pressure on her relationships, her identity and her safety that this new position brings, all while being on the front lines of the quest to find out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us.

Compulsively entertaining and powerfully relevant, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing grapples with big themes, including how the social internet is changing fame, how our culture deals with fear, and how vilification and adoration follows a life in the public eye.

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Review:

Fun and full of truth. To be honest, I'm a little irritated at how good the book is. I don't need this kind of competition (Patrick Rothfuss, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kingkiller Chronicles)

An undeniably strange and delightful thing (V.E. Schwab)

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is such a beautiful exploration of what humans can accomplish when we collaborate effectively. (John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars)

[Green's] writing is light-hearted, clever, resonating and funny, tackling socially relevant themes, including the darker side of social media, sexuality, the naivety of youth and media representation . . . Get ready to be absorbed in the story, glued to the book and a little more afraid of Twitter (Stylist)

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is perhaps most like a cheerier John Wyndham: a first contact story that, rather than dwelling too much on why aliens have arrived, focuses on how humans react. (GUARDIAN)

Funny, thrilling, and an absolute blast to read. I knew Hank would be good at this, but I didn't know he would be this good on the first try (John Scalzi)

A fun, contemporary adventure that cares about who we are as humans, especially when faced with remarkable events. (Kirkus (starred review))

By turns joyful, devastating, personal, zeitgeisty, modern, classic, fast-paced, and thoughtful, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing blew me away with its fresh take on first contact in this fragile, ever-connected world we live in. Quick but never shallow, it will stand as a snapshot of an era as well as just a darn good read (Catherynne M. Valente)

You're about to meet somebody named April May who you're immediately going to want to be best friends with. And bonus, she spends all her time having incredible adventures with giant robots and dream puzzles and accidental Internet fame. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is pure book-joy (Lev Grossman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians Trilogy)

This is the book my teen self would have loved, and my adult self immediately obsessed over. I turned the pages of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing so quickly the pads of my thumbs were worn smooth by the time I finished it. It provokes the mind, tickles the spirit, and April May is the terribly relevant young protagonist we've been waiting for (Ashley C. Ford)

Book Description:

In his #1 New York Times bestselling novel, Hank Green spins a cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined . . .

About this edition

• Publisher: Trapeze
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1473224209
• ISBN 13: 9781473224209
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352