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Green, John Looking for Alaska HarperCollins, 2011, pp263, £6.99 978 0 00 742483 2
This is a novel which unites many powerful themes: first love, bereavement and selfdiscovery. It is narrated by sixteen-year-old Miles (awkward, geeky, intelligent) and begins with his arrival at his father's old boarding school in Birmingham, Alabama. Immediately, Miles's understanding of the world is challenged, first by the confidence and irony of his roommate,...