“You never forget your first love…”
Title:
Eleanor & Park
Spanish
title: Eleanor Y
Park
Nº
pages: 432
Editorial:
Alfaguara
Approximately
price:14,73€
ISBN: 9788420415703
Setting:
80´s
Eleanor... Red
hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him
until he turns his head. Lying beside
him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never
good enough... Eleanor.
Park... He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises... Park.
Park... He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises... Park.
Rainbow Rowell transports
us to 1986 on a high school bus on Omaha, but Eleanor & Park could have
also been set in the 1990s or 2000s.Eleanor first meets Park when she is forced
to sit next to him-and he begrudgingly lets her- on the way to school. They
barely look at, neither speak, to each other so their love story begins in
silence as Park loans Eleanor the comic books that he brings with him every
day, then the mix tapes and later comes the eventual conversation.
Set over the course of one
school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds—smart
enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate
enough to try.
“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 sixteen."
"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.”
"So did Jerry Lee Lewis," Eleanor answers.
"I’m not kidding," he says.
"You should be," she says, "we’re sixteen."
"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.”
