Eleanor  Park, Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor  Park, Rainbow Rowell
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Eleanor & Park
A Novel

Author: Rainbow Rowell

Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Sunil Malhotra

Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/23/2024


Synopsis

"Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it's like to be young and in love with a book."-John Green, The New York Times Book Review

Bono met his wife in high school, Park says.
So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers.
I'm not kidding, he says.
You should be, she says, we're 16.
What about Romeo and Juliet?
Shallow, confused, then dead.
I love you, Park says.
Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers.
I'm not kidding, he says.
You should be.

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you'll remember your own first love—and just how hard it pulled you under.

About Rainbow Rowell

Rainbow Rowell is the award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and the Simon Snow Trilogy, plus several other novels, short stories, and comics. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska, just like most of her characters.


Reviews

Edit 5/19: It's been 6 years since I read this book and it has not aged well: [URL not allowed] This just shows how much we really needed not only diverse books but #ownvoices authors, too. “I don't like you, Park," she said, sounding for a second like she actually meant it.......more

Goodreads review by Miranda

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Goodreads review by Katrina

If you've experienced that first love - that heart-wringing, soul-squeezing, crush-the-air-out-of-your-lungs-whenever-you're-apart first love - this book will bitch slap your feels all to hell. I love it. I love its warmth and its vibrancy, its heartache and its pain, its humor, its mean......more

Goodreads review by Cinda

I've often said that nobody should write for teens who doesn't remember what it was like to be one. Rainbow Rowell remembers, and has captured it beautifully in this book.......more


Quotes

A #1 New York Times Best Seller!
A Michael L. Printz Honor Book
A New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction
Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Book
Winner of the Indies Choice, Young Adult Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of the Year
An NPR Best Book of the Year

“Funny, hopeful, foulmouthed, sexy, and tear-jerking, this winning romance will captivate teen and adult readers alike.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Rowell keeps things surprising, and the solution maintains the novel's delicate balance of light and dark.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“The pure, fear-laced, yet steadily maturing relationship Eleanor and Park develop is urgent and breathtaking and, of course, heartbreaking, too.” —Booklist (starred review)

“An honest, heart-wrenching portrayal of imperfect but unforgettable love.” —The Horn Book (winner of The Horn Book Award for fiction)

"Rowell’s humor, tenderness, and sense of detail are extraordinary." —Curtis Sittenfeld for The New Yorker

Eleanor & Park is a breathless, achingly good read about love and outsiders.” —Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss and Lola and the Boy Next Door

“Sweet, gritty, and affecting . . . Rainbow Rowell has written an unforgettable story about two misfits in love. This debut will find its way into your heart and stay there.” —Courtney Summers, author of This Is Not a Test and Cracked Up to Be

“In her rare and surprising exploration of young misfit love, Rowell shows us the beauty in the broken.” —Stewart Lewis, author of You Have Seven Messages

Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it's like to be young and in love with a book.” —John Green, The New York Times Book Review

“Rowell's writing swings from profane to profound, but it's always real and always raw.” —Petra Mayer for NPR Books


Awards

  • Indies Choice Book Awards Winner
  • Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
  • Boston Globe - Horn Book Award
  • Apple iBooks Best of the Year
  • Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year
  • Michael L. Printz Award - Honor
  • Bookish Best Books of the Year
  • Goodreads Choice Awards
  • Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year
  • New Yorker Best Books of the Year
  • Kansas City Star Top Books of the Year
  • Amazon.com Best Books of the Year
  • NYTBR Notable Children's BOTY
  • NPR Best Book of the Year