9780451478139-0451478134-Alice By Heart

Alice By Heart

ISBN-13: 9780451478139
ISBN-10: 0451478134
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Steven Sater
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Razorbill
Format: Hardcover 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780451478139
ISBN-10: 0451478134
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Steven Sater
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Razorbill
Format: Hardcover 288 pages

Summary

Alice By Heart (ISBN-13: 9780451478139 and ISBN-10: 0451478134), written by authors Steven Sater, was published by Razorbill in 2020. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Alice By Heart (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $4.12.

Description

A young girl takes refuge in a London Tube station during WWII and confronts grief, loss, and first love with the help of her favorite book, Alice in Wonderland, in the debut novel from Tony Award-winning playwright Steven Sater.

London, 1940. Amidst the rubble of the Blitz of World War II, fifteen-year-old Alice Spencer and her best friend, Alfred, are forced to take shelter in an underground tube station. Sick with tuberculosis, Alfred is quarantined, with doctors saying he won't make it through the night. In her desperation to keep him holding on, Alice turns to their favorite pastime: recalling the book that bonded them, and telling the story that she knows by heart--the story of Alice in Wonderland.

What follows is a stunning, fantastical journey that blends Alice's two worlds: her war-ravaged homeland being held together by nurses and soldiers and Winston Churchill, and her beloved Wonderland, a welcome distraction from the bombs and the death, but a place where one rule always applies: the pages must keep turning. But then the lines between these two worlds begin to blur. Is that a militant Red Cross Nurse demanding that Alice get BACK. TO. HER. BED!, or is it the infamous Queen of Hearts saying...something about her head? Soon, Alice must decide whether to stay in Wonderland forever, or embrace the pain of reality if that's what it means to grow up.

In this gorgeous YA adaption of his off-Broadway musical, the Tony Award-winning co-creator of Spring Awakening encourages us all to celebrate the transformational power of the imagination, even in the harshest of times.
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