Before you go : a novel / Tommy Butler.
By: Butler, Tommy (Screenwriter) [author.]
Language: English Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780062934963; 0062934961Subject(s): Boys -- Fiction | Friendship -- Fiction | Loneliness -- Fiction | Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction | Existentialism -- Fiction | Self-help groups -- Fiction | Conscience, Examination of -- Fiction | Bildungsromans -- Fiction | FICTION / Coming of Age | FICTION / Friendship | FICTION / Literary | Loneliness | Alienation (Social psychology) | Self-help groups | Friendship | Existentialism | Conscience, Examination of | Boys | Bildungsromans | Mentally ill -- Fiction | Accountants -- Fiction | Suicide -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction | Creation -- Fiction | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction | New York (State) -- New York -- Manhattan | New York (N.Y.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Bildungsromans. | Fiction. | Novels. | Bildungsromans. | Bildungsromans. | Psychological fiction. | Fiction. | Novels.LOC classification: PS3602.U8547 | B44 2020Summary: "In the Before, humankind is created with a hole in its heart, the designers not realizing their mistake -- if it was a mistake -- until too late. Elliot Chance is just a boy, and knows nothing of this. All he knows is that he doesn't feel at home in this world, and his desire for escape becomes more urgent as he grows into adulthood, where the turbulence of life seems to offer no cure for the emptiness. Desperate and lost, he stumbles upon a support group on the edge of Manhattan. There he meets two other drifting souls -- Sasha, a young woman who leaves coded messages in the copy she writes for advertising campaigns, and Bannor, whose detailed depictions of the future make Elliot think he may have actually been there. With these two unlikely allies, Elliot launches into the business of life, determined to be happy in spite of himself. Yet the hole in the heart is not so easily filled." -- Provided by publisher.| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| FICTION | COLLEGE LIBRARY | COLLEGE LIBRARY FICTION | Fic B9787 2020 (Browse shelf) | Available | CL-53290 |
"In the Before, humankind is created with a hole in its heart, the designers not realizing their mistake -- if it was a mistake -- until too late. Elliot Chance is just a boy, and knows nothing of this. All he knows is that he doesn't feel at home in this world, and his desire for escape becomes more urgent as he grows into adulthood, where the turbulence of life seems to offer no cure for the emptiness. Desperate and lost, he stumbles upon a support group on the edge of Manhattan. There he meets two other drifting souls -- Sasha, a young woman who leaves coded messages in the copy she writes for advertising campaigns, and Bannor, whose detailed depictions of the future make Elliot think he may have actually been there. With these two unlikely allies, Elliot launches into the business of life, determined to be happy in spite of himself. Yet the hole in the heart is not so easily filled." -- Provided by publisher.
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