by Matthew Quick · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780316221351
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«Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock» is the young adult novel by Matthew Quick (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, paperback, 304 pages, in English).
On his seventeenth birthday, Leonard Peacock plans to kill his former best friend and then commit suicide. Before carrying out his plan, he gives farewell gifts to four people: his neighbor Walt, the violinist Baback, Lauren, and his teacher Herr Silverman. Through these encounters, themes such as bullying, friendship and mental health are addressed.
Nominated for the 2013 Goodreads Choice Award in young adult fiction and chosen as an honor book for the Thumbs Up! Award by the Michigan Library Association.
Novel aimed at young people and adults interested in realistic narrative about mental health, bullying and the complexity of adolescence.
Matthew Quick is an American writer of adult and young adult fiction. His 2008 debut novel, The Silver Linings Playbook, became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted as a 2012 movie of the same name starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.
