Boo is the highly anticipated debut novel from one of the most incomparable voices in Canadian literature: Bang Crunch author Neil Smith. Oliver Dalrymple, nicknamed "Boo" because of his pale complexion and staticky hair, is an outcast at his Illinois middle school--more interested in biology and chemistry than the friendship of other kids/5(89). · Book Breakdown: Boo by Neil Smith I think I may be in the minority with this one, but I wasn’t as swept away by Boo as I expected to be. At first I found the image of heaven to be really interesting, but as the novel went on I was frustrated by the fact that it seemed more like random ideas about how it would be than an actual www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins. Boo, by Neil Smith, is a unique story about a thirteen-year old boy who finds himself, well, dead--without knowing why. While trapped in an afterlife that is never quite understood or explained, he must unravel the details surrounding his strange and sudden death/5.
From Neil Smith, author of the award-winning, internationally acclaimed story collection Bang Crunch, comes a dark but whimsical debut novel about starting over in the afterlife in the vein of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. When Oliver 'Boo' Dalrymple wakes up in heaven, the eighth-grade science geek thinks he died of a heart defect at his school. Neil Smith is the author of Boo ( avg rating, ratings, reviews, published ), La Déesse des mouches à feu ( avg rating, ratings. Review | Boo, Neil Smith. Posted on by Jaclyn. On the first week of school in , thirteen year old Oliver "Boo" Dalrymple dies in front of his locker while reciting the periodic table. A shy, socially awkward aspiring scientist, Boo wakes up in Town, a bit of heaven populated by thirteen year olds. A few days later, he is.
Smith ventures to convey a reality about bullying and mental health that is far braver than any you’ve ever read, as Boo is a spelunking adventure deep into the caves of life, death, good, evil, mortality, loss and grief. In this thirteen-year-old limbo called “Town,” Boo, at first, struggles to figure out how he ended up there. About the Author. Neil Smith is a French to English translator who lives in Montreal. His first book, the story collection Bang Crunch, was published around the world to critical acclaim and was chosen as one of the best books of the year by the Globe and Mail and the Washington Post. Boo is his first novel. Boo has a great way of telling a story and keeping you invested without much happening. Nevertheless you will go away deeply touched by his www.doorway.ru Goodread.
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