The Beginner's Guide to Living

By Lia Hills

Seven days after his mother dies in a sudden, senseless accident, seventeen-year-old Will embarks on a search for meaning that leads him to the great philosophers--Plato, Seneca, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche--and to Taryn, the beautiful girl he meets at his mother's wake. Will is desperate to find, however he can, something authentic, something ultimate, something so true he would live or die for it. But is he willing to risk losing Taryn--losing everything --to seek the answers he craves?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374306591
• ISBN13: 9780374306595
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 0.9" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 14 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12