Looking For Alaska

Looking For Alaska
John Green

The authors definitive edition of this unmissable first novel from bestselling and award-winning author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS and TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN.Contains:• a brand-new introduction from John Green• never-before-seen passages from original manuscript• a Q&A with the author, responding to fans’ favourite questions“In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette, but even in the dark, I could see her eyes – fierce emeralds. And not just beautiful, but hot too.”BEFORE. Miles Halter’s whole life has been one big non-event until he starts at anything-but-boring Culver Creek Boarding School and meets Alaska Young. Gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, screwed up and utterly fascinating she pulls Miles into her world, launches him into a new life, and steals his heart. But when tragedy strikes, and Miles comes face-to-face with death he discovers the value of living and loving unconditionally.AFTER: Nothing will ever be the same.Poignant, funny, heartbreaking and compelling, this novel will stay with you forever.

Copyright (#ucd271982-ed0a-5fd4-9bf5-fea8ee6f94f1)

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is coincidental.

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First published in the USA by Dutton Books, 2005

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd.

This edition published in 2015

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Looking for Alaska

Text copyright © John Green 2005

Additional content for this edition © John Green, 2015

Here (#ulink_78564489-b9e3-5f61-b191-e813bdd83879) and here (#litres_trial_promo) Excerpt from The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez

Poetry quote (#litres_trial_promo) from “As I Walked Out One Evening” by W. H. Auden

Poetry quote (#litres_trial_promo) from “Not So Far as the Forest” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

John Green asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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Source ISBN: 9780008120924

Ebook Edition © JANUARY 2015 ISBN: 9780008129453

Version: 2016-12-02

Dedication (#ucd271982-ed0a-5fd4-9bf5-fea8ee6f94f1)

To my family, Sydney Green, Mike Green and Hank Green.

“I have tried so hard to do right.”

(last words of President Grover Cleveland)

Contents

Cover (#ud88e88f9-eccf-5fd9-a62d-a2baa8308250)

Title Page (#u784251fe-f206-5422-a923-761a58c7878c)

Copyright

Dedication

Introduction

Before

One Hundred Thirty-Six Days Before

After

The Day After

Some Last Words on Last Words

Deleted Scenes

Opening Scenes

Original Draft Opening, August 2003

Original First Meeting, August 2003

The Funeral

Original Funeral, August 2003

Funeral, Revision Delivered January 2004

Funeral, Revision Delivered March 2004

“Before & After” Counting Alaska’s Days