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A Matter of Life and Death or Something : a Novel by Ben Stephenson; Barbara Berson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The big-hearted story of a ten-year-old boy, a notebook and the meaning of the universe.Even though he’s only ten years old, Arthur Williams knows lots of things for sure. He knows all about trilobites, and bridge, and that he doesn’t want to be Victoria Brown’s boyfriend, and that tapping maple trees causes them excruciating pain. He knows his real dad is probably flying a hot-air balloon across the Pacific, or paving a city with moss. And he knows that Simon, the guy who pretends to be his dad, does absolutely nothing interesting. But when Arthur finds a weather-worn notebook in the woods behind his house, all he has are questions. Why was its author, Phil, so sad, and why does it end on page 43? Suddenly, there are other questions too: Why do people abandon people? Why do they abandon themselves?Arthur embarks on a top-secret investigation to find out who Phil is—or was. But getting straight answers from grown-ups is impossible, and before long, the only thing he knows for sure is that everything he thought he knew about life is probably wrong and that what he has to do is ten times bigger than what he can do.Told through a trio of voices: the wildly imaginative and perpetually

Who reads A Matter of Life and Death or Something : a Novel?

Author

Ben Stephenson; Barbara Berson

Publisher

Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781926812724

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.45 / 5 (123 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14