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Going Out

By Scarlett Thomas

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| Paperback | 9781400075317

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Book Description

Luke is allergic to everything. He spends his days in a sterile safe-haven designed to keep out all light and dirt, while everything he knows about the world comes from books, movies, the internet and whatever his best-friend Julie tells him. He would do anything to go outside.

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Luke is allergic to everything. He spends his days in a sterile safe-haven designed to keep out all light and dirt, while everything he knows about the world comes from books, movies, the internet and whatever his best-friend Julie tells him. He would do anything to go outside.

Julie, brilliant and kind, could be out changing the world. Unfortunately, she’s too afraid of airplane crashes, highway accidents, and potentially life-threatening bacteria to leave her hometown, her pointless waitress job, or Luke.

Charlotte’s boyfriend dropped dead from a brain hemorrhage. She disappeared for awhile, but now she’s decided that she misses her friends.

David has just been diagnosed with testicular cancer. Consequently, he’s no longer wants to spend his days making pizza to pay for school. His priorities in life are changing; he just doesn’t know how, yet.

Leanne has just discovered that she may or may not have magic powers.

When this motley bunch befriends a lottery winner with a generous heart, they all embark on a hysterical and heartwarming journey in search of the healer who just might be able to cure Luke, and perhaps give them the answers they didn’t know they were looking for.

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  • Going Out

    Few American stories have been adapted as often as Frank Baum’s 1900 publication, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which has spawned movies, books, musicals, even bedsheets. In her new novel, Going Out, British author Scarlett Thomas offers up a modern-da ... (read full critics)

    believermag published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

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  • I liked this book because it is simple, funny and does not want to be the a great book! While I was reading it I did not have the impression that Thomas wanted to force her thoughts and opinions on me, she tells things silently, softly and you realise it only at the last page. I've read it thinking ... (continue)

    I liked this book because it is simple, funny and does not want to be the a great book! While I was reading it I did not have the impression that Thomas wanted to force her thoughts and opinions on me, she tells things silently, softly and you realise it only at the last page. I've read it thinking it was fresh and easy, I've finished it thinking that it gave me more than I thought it would.

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  • A bit like the Wizard of Oz, a group of friends all on the search for something.

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    Vicky said on Feb 7, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 368 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1400075319
  • ISBN-13: 9781400075317
  • Publisher: Anchor
  • Pub date: Jun 08, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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