Matthew Quick (aka Q) is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, The Good Luck of Right Now, and three young adult novels, Sorta Like a Rock Star, Boy21, and Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock. His work has been translated into thirty languages, and has received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention. The Weinstein Company and David O. Russell adapted The Silver Linings Playbook into an Academy Award winning film. Q lives in North Carolina with his wife, novelist/pianist Alicia Besette. His website is matthewquickwriter.com.
*"Quick's attentiveness to these few key relationships and
encounters gives the story its strength and razorlike
focus...Through Leonard, Quick urges readers to look beyond the
pain of the here and now to the possibilities that await."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
*"Quick's use of flashbacks, internal dialogue, and interpersonal
communication is brilliant, and the suspense about what happened
between Leonard and Asher builds tangibly. The masterful writing
takes readers inside Leonard's tormented mind, enabling a
compassionate response to him and to others dealing with
trauma."--School Library Journal (starred review)
"...the novel presents a host of compelling, well-drawn, realistic
characters-all of whom want Leonard to make it through the day safe
and sound."--Kirkus
"At a time when bullying and gun violence is at the top of the
national conversation, this novel servies as a literary segue for
teens, parents and teachers into an open dialogue on sensitive
topics."--USA Today
"Books like Quick's are necessary...We should be grateful for a
book that gets kids, and the leaders they'll become, thinking about
the problem now."--The New York Times
"Full disclosure: you might need tissues to make it through Leonard
Peacock, but even if you don't, you'll likely be touched by
Leonard's story."--Entertainment Weekly
"If only Hollywood could get novelist Matthew Quick to write
faster. Everything the Massachusetts-based writer pens seems to be
scooped up by the studios as soon as the books are bound."--The Los
Angeles Times
"Leonard's life teeters dangerously between moments of pain and
beauty. A fast read, because I needed to keep reading. I will not
forget Leonard Peacock. I love this book."--Jay Asher, #1 New York
Times bestselling author of Thirteen Reasons Why and The Future of
Us
"Over the course of one intense day (with flashbacks), Leonard's
existential crisis is delineated through an engaging first-person
narrative supplemented with footnotes and letters from the future
that urge Leonard to believe in a "life beyond the �bermorons" at
school. Complicated characters and ideas remain complicated, with
no facile resolutions, in this memorable story."--The Horn Book
"Quick is most interested in Leonard's psychology, which is
simultaneously clear and splintered, and his voice, which is filled
with brash humor, self-loathing, and bucket loads of refreshingly
messy contradictions, many communicated through Leonard's footnotes
to his own story. It may sound bleak, but it is, in fact, quite
brave, and Leonard's interspersed fictional notes to himself from
2032 add a unique flavor of hope."--Booklist
"This is one of the most important books of our time."--A.S. King,
Printz Honor author of Everybody Sees the Ants and Ask the
Passengers
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