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Title: Lite Too Bright, A
Author: MILLER SAMUEL
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 08/05/2018
Imprint: KATHERINE TEGEN BOOKS US
Price: $34.00
Publishing status: Active
Booklist (02/01/2018):
Grades 9-12 *Starred Review* Eighteen-year-old Arthur Louis Pullman III is on an epic quest toward understanding the great enigma of his Alzheimer-addled grandfather’s life and mysterious, solitary death. The grandfather, Arthur Louis Pullman I, was the author of a single novel, A World Away, which has become a modern classic with a passionately devoted readership. However, with the publication of that novel, the grandfather apparently never wrote another word. When Arthur discovers a clue he believes his grandfather left for him, he begins a trip that will take him across America, from California to Ohio, turning up more clues as he goes. Along the way, he meets Mara, an Indian British girl, who will become his companion, introducing him to a group of revolutionaries devoted to the grandfather’s work, which has given them a Great Purpose. Meanwhile, Arthur (the younger one) has secrets of his own that remain tantalizingly unanswered. Yes, all will be revealed in time, but what a compelling journey this is toward the bright light of revelationand what an accomplished debut this is, too. Beautifully conceived and executed, it has an irresistible premise; an ingenious plot tinged with mystery; compelling, multidimensional characters; and a haunting ethos that will linger in readers’ minds long after they have finished.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)
Kirkus Reviews (03/01/2018):
A boy with a muddled past embarks on a cross-country journey to uncover the mystery behind the last week of his famous grandfather’s life.Arthur Louis Pullman the Third is the grandson of Arthur Louis Pullman, a Beat-generation writer renowned for producing a singular work of literary genius before withdrawing from the outside world and losing himself in a fog of dementia. Five years earlier, Pullman mysteriously disappeared from his son’s cabin in California only to wind up dead a week later in Ohio, his whereabouts during the intervening period unknown. Reeling from his own present-day trauma, grandson Arthur discovers a clue to his grandfather’s travels and sets off by train to follow it, hoping to learn more about his famous forebear’s life and death. Jumping from clue to clue and train to train across the country, Arthur stumbles upon extraordinary discoveries, from long-lost family members to secret societies, and, ultimately, the truth not only about his grandfather, but himself as well. He is helped along the way by an enigmatic British-Indian girl named Mara who has motives of her own and strains against being pigeonholed as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl. The Pullman family is white.This fresh incarnation of the great American road trip novel is bursting with big ideas, enigmas, poetry, and flashes of humor. (author’s note) (Fiction. 14-adult) COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
ISBN: 9780062662002
Weight: 522g
Dimension: 211mm X 150mm
Pages: 480