David Levithan
Hardcover | Pages: 176 pages Rating: 3.75 | 7217 Users | 815 Reviews
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| Title | : | Love Is the Higher Law |
| Author | : | David Levithan |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 176 pages |
| Published | : | August 25th 2009 by Knopf Books for Young Readers |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. LGBT. Contemporary. Fiction. Realistic Fiction |
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First there is a Before, and then there is an After. . . .The lives of three teens—Claire, Jasper, and Peter—are altered forever on September 11, 2001. Claire, a high school junior, has to get to her younger brother in his classroom. Jasper, a college sophomore from Brooklyn, wakes to his parents’ frantic calls from Korea, wondering if he’s okay. Peter, a classmate of Claire’s, has to make his way back to school as everything happens around him.
Here are three teens whose intertwining lives are reshaped by this catastrophic event. As each gets to know the other, their moments become wound around each other’s in a way that leads to new understandings, new friendships, and new levels of awareness for the world around them and the people close by.
David Levithan has written a novel of loss and grief, but also one of hope and redemption as his characters slowly learn to move forward in their lives, despite being changed forever.
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| Original Title: | Love is the Higher Law |
| ISBN: | 0375834680 (ISBN13: 9780375834684) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Peter Duchene, Claire Amadeus, Jasper Renn |
| Setting: | New York City, New York,2001(United States) New York State(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Lincoln Award Nominee (2012) |
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Ratings: 3.75 From 7217 Users | 815 ReviewsEvaluation Out Of Books Love Is the Higher Law
I'm kind of obsessed with 9/11 and it's obviously a touchy subject as well as a tear-jerker, so I has great expectations for this book. It was OK. Just OK (for me).At first, I either hated or didn't like the characters. This changed a little as I read more and more. I was, again, OK with them. So, as you can guess, the story didn't grab me. I had no intense feelings, and I wanted to, so bad :(To be honest, I was not entirely impressed with this book. I wanted to like it, but I couldn't. I love David Levithan, and I love his style of writing and storylines, but this one was weak and under developed.Love is the Higher Law focuses on the events of 9/11 and the aftermath of the city of New York and how people (namely three teenagers) reacted and moved on. The chapters alternate between each of the three characters, which I always love, but unfortunately in this book it just didn't work
I'm not American but I still remember waking up and seeing what happened. I think most people remember where they were when they first heard what happened on 9/11. I was in my first year at high school and I'd never seen anything like it. I couldn't imagine what the people in NYC were going through. I've never read a book on 9/11 before and I honestly never thought I would. I've started reading David's books and I saw this one at the library. I wasn't sure if I wanted to read it but I thought
This is my first Levithan novel.... I know is probably a surprise to some of you. (sorry Khy... are you proud of me.. I read one!) But I have to say I'll definitely be picking up his novels... and even plan to do so in the near future, with Will Grayson, Will Grayson.Any way back to the novel at hand. This novel really stuck a cord with me. I honestly cried while reading most of it... ok, i cried through the entire thing actually. Thank god it wasn't all that long. I guess I just remember that
I think I need to accept the fact that the David Levithan work I'll enjoy most already happened in the days he ghostwrote for The Babysitters Club.I like the idea of this book a lot, and I cannot deny Levithan packs in some beautiful sentences about 9/11. In the future there is much here that may help explain what was felt that day, what rippled through the country.But also: this is a novel. And Levithan's multi-POV narrative reads more like a project in multi-POV narrative than, you know, just
During the 9/11 attack, my mind or the whole of me was still innocent of the real world. All I really want is to play w/ my friends. I'm pretty sure I don't even know there such a place called NewYork. By the first time I've learned/heard of the attack, which was during my high school days, several years have gone already. And 9/11 seems to be just a terrible part of the past like the world wars. I didn't really give much thought or showed much concern about it for 3 reasons: 1.) I don't live in
This was a great book.I bought it just because it was written by David Levithan. I knew absolutely nothing about it going in or even when I bought it. The edition I have didn't have a synopsis so I picked it up because of the cover and because of the author. If I had really paid attention to the cover I would've been able to put it together that this was a 9/11 book, but I didn't. I had NO CLUE. And I'm really happy that I went into it not knowing because I'm not sure I would've picked it up if
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