| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780064410168 | | Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers | | Publish Date: 10/13/2006 | | Buy.com Sku: 202468969 | | Item#: RC9E6Q | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 68300 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.5H x 5.5L x 1.25T | | Pages: 384 | | Age Range: 14 to UP |
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| | | | "If you have ever peeled an onion, then you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer, and that layer reveals another, and another, and before you know it you have hundreds of layers all over the kitchen table and thousands of tears in your eyes, sorry that you ever started peeling in the first place and wishing that you had left the onion alone to wither away on the shelf of the pantry while you went on with your life, even if that meant never again enjoying the complicated and overwhelming taste of this strange and bitter vegetable..." (from the first line) All things must come to an end. Thankfully, this includes A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The 13th and final installment in the groundbreaking series will answer readers' most burning questions: Will Count Olaf prevail? Will the Baudelaires survive? Will the series end happily? And if there's nothing out there, what was that noise?
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With mysteries violently swirling around the Baudelaire orphans like smoke rising from the burning Hotel Denouement, the trio find themselves most unfortunately involved in a situation of dire proportions involving deadly mushrooms, work sheep, spiceless ceviche, and the dark past of the V.F.D. Washed up on a coastal shelf with their arch enemy, Count Olaf, the children find themselves taken in by kind islanders ruled over by a devious man name Ishmael who forces everyone to drink coconut cordial, dress like cult members, and scavenge the detritus that arrives with each storm. Will the identity of Lemony Snicket ever be discovered? Exactly who is the very mysterious Beatrice? Will the hapless but ever hopeful Baudelaire orphans ever get a break? Will Count Olaf finally be stopped? And where on earth is the sugar bowl? A 2006 New York Times Notable Book.
| Praise| "Where, in the end--and in the THE END--does the 'Unfortunate Events' series leave us? It leaves us reminded of what an interesting and offbeat educator Handler is. In between all the exotic ethnic food references and the gallows humor and the teaching of words like 'denouement' and 'vaporetto,' the books seem at times like a covert mission to turn their readers into slightly dark-hued sophisticates." - Henry Alford 10/22/2006 |
| Author Bio| Lemony Snicket | | Lemony Snicket is the notorious pen name of Daniel Handler, author of the enormously popular, extremely funny Series of Unfortunate Events books. Handler went to Wesleyan University, and resides in the city of his birth, San Francisco. Under his name, he has written adult novels, including THE BASIC EIGHT, WATCH YOUR MOUTH, and ADVERBS. |
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