The Center of Everything

Laura Moriarty

ISBN 10: 1401300316 / ISBN 13: 9781401300319

Published by Hyperion, New York, 2003

Signed first edition. New. From the publisher: "Set in Kerrville, Kansas, The Center of Everything is told by Evelyn Bucknow, an endearing character with a wholly refreshing way of looking at the world. Living with her single mother in a small apartment, Evelyn Bucknow is a young girl wincing her way through adolescence. With a voice that is as charming as it is recognizable, Evelyn immerses the reader in the dramas of an entire community. The people of Kerrville, stuck at once in the middle of nowhere but also at the center of everything, are the source from which Moriarty draws on universal dilemmas of love and belief to render a story that grows in emotional intensity until it lifts the reader to heights achieved only by the finest of fiction." About the author, from her own website: Laura Moriarty earned a degree in social work before returning for her M.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Kansas. She was the recipient of the George Bennett Fellowship for Creative Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and is now a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kansas. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas, and is at work on her next novel." The Center of Everything is her first novel. Since then she has written The Rest of Her Life (2007), While I'm Falling (2009), The Chaperone (2012), and, most recently the young adult novel American Heart (2018). "The author makes fine use of simple, small-town events, refracting and re-examining them through Evelyn's changing perceptions.a warm, beguiling book full of hard-won wisdom." Janet Maslin, the New York Times, June 30, 2003. ABEDESC The Center of Everything is told through the voice of young Evelyn Bucknow, a young girl who lives with her single mother in a small apartment in the small town of Kerrville, Kansas. But Evelyn doesn't tell her own story so much as she tells the story of Kerrville. Author Laura Moriarty is from Kansas and still lives there. She earned a degree in social work before becoming a writer, and has recently started writing young adult fiction-she knows what she's talking about in The Center of Everything. Janet Maselin, in the New York Times, said of this book when it came out, "The author makes fine use of simple, small-town events, refracting and re-examining them through Evelyn's changing perceptions.a warm, beguiling book full of hard-won wisdom." Our copy is signed and brand new, in pristine condition. Library of Congress description: 291 p.; 24 cm. Printed on alkaline paper. Seller Inventory # 134

Synopsis:

Critics and readers everywhere stood up and took notice when Laura Moriarty's captivating debut novel hit the stores in June '03. Janet Maslin of the New York Times praised The Center of Everything as "warm" and "beguiling." USA Today compared the scrappy yet tender-hearted Evelyn Bucknow to Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. It garnered extensive national attention; from Entertainment Weekly to the Boston Globe and the San Francisco Chronicle, the press raved about the wisdom and poignancy of Moriarty's writing. The Book-of-the-Month Club snatched it up as a Main Selection, as did the Literary Guild. It was a USA Today Summer Reading Pick, a BookSense Top 10 Pick, and a BN.com book club feature title. And still, months after The Center of Everything's original publication date, reviews and features of the book continue to run nationwide.

About the Author: Laura Moriarty received her master's degree from the University of Kansas and was awarded the George Bennett Fellowship for Creative Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy. She is the author of The Center of Everything. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Center of Everything
Publisher: Hyperion, New York
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition.