by Gavin Extence · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788482646558
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«L'univers contra l'Alex Woods» is the coming-of-age novel by Gavin Extence, published by La Magrana in paperback (448 pages, in Catalan).
Alex Woods, a young man marked by an accident with a meteorite and by a spiritualist mother, is detained at Dover customs with an urn of ashes and marijuana. His account recalls his friendship with Mr. Peterson, a Vietnam veteran who teaches him that life gives only one chance and that you have to choose well. Humour, literary homages, friendship, knowledge and mortality structure the novel.
Translation by Núria Parés, in the collection «Otros - La Magrana». Original title: The Universe Versus Alex Woods. Winner of the ALA Alex Award and finalist for the Desmond Elliott Prize.
For readers of coming-of-age novels and contemporary fiction, with echoes of «El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche».
Gavin Extence is an English writer. Extence won the Waterstones 11 literary prize for his first book The Universe Versus Alex Woods (2013). He has a PhD in Film studies, is married, has a daughter and is also a keen chess player.
