Eleanor & Park: A Novel

Rainbow Rowell

Feb 2013 · Sold by St. Martin's Griffin

About this ebook

#1 New York Times Best Seller!

"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.

A New York Times Best Seller!
A 2014 Michael L. Printz Honor Book for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
Eleanor & Park is the winner of the 2013 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Best Fiction Book.
A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of 2013
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2013
A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2013
An NPR Best Book of 2013

Ratings and reviews

Eleanor and park is a very good book it hurt me what happened at the end tbh I really wanted them together and if not for Richie they would have been together..it's sad but it's life, the book made me happy but the ending hurt me somehow (just really wanted the best for them I guess). This is a very good book to read and really it is, so if u want to read or buy this book it's a good decision...

this book made me cry in a bus and so it's the bomb. but seriously, it's such a nice and cool story about first loves and how the feeling is just heavenly and so fast and so explicit. it's such a sad thing to realize how small we are in the expanse of the universe and so lucky when we find that one person who makes us feel everything. this book made me love "love" and i can't think about this book without having the overwhelming urge to reread it again and again.

I read the last words without realizing they were the last words. I turned the page only to find the acknowledgements, which surprised me. The story kinda just ended..... I liked this real world story written in fiction but could have easily passed for non fiction. I'm not really missing these characters like I typically would although I'll probably think on them in the days to come. I like how the author switched viewpoints from Eleanor to Park and back again. The writing style works for me! Thanks. Now please finish what you started ;)

About the author

RAINBOW ROWELL lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with her husband and two sons. She's also the author of Landline, Fangirl and Attachments.