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Bridge of Clay

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    About Bridge of Clay

    The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as “the kind of book that can be life-changing.”

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
     
    “One of those monumental books that can draw you across space and time into another family’s experience in the most profound way.” —The Washington Post

    “Mystical and loaded with heart, it’s another gorgeous tearjerker from a rising master of them.” —Entertainment Weekly

    “Devastating, demanding and deeply moving.” —Wall Street Journal 

    The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance.

    At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge—for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle.

    The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome?
     
    Written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, BRIDGE OF CLAY is signature Zusak.

    About Bridge of Clay

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

    The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as “the kind of book that can be life-changing.”

    This is a signed edition with limited copies available.
     
    “One of those monumental books that can draw you across space and time into another family’s experience in the most profound way.” —The Washington Post

    “Mystical and loaded with heart, it’s another gorgeous tearjerker from a rising master of them.” —Entertainment Weekly

    “Devastating, demanding and deeply moving.” —Wall Street Journal 

    The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance.

    At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge—for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle.

    The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome?
     
    Written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, BRIDGE OF CLAY is signature Zusak.

    About Bridge of Clay

    The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as “the kind of book that can be life-changing.”

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
     
    “One of those monumental books that can draw you across space and time into another family’s experience in the most profound way.” —The Washington Post

    “Mystical and loaded with heart, it’s another gorgeous tearjerker from a rising master of them.” —Entertainment Weekly

    “Devastating, demanding and deeply moving.” —Wall Street Journal 

    The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance.

    At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge—for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle.

    The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome?
     
    Written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, BRIDGE OF CLAY is signature Zusak.

    About Bridge of Clay

    The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as “the kind of book that can be life-changing.”

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
     
    “One of those monumental books that can draw you across space and time into another family’s experience in the most profound way.” —The Washington Post

    “Mystical and loaded with heart, it’s another gorgeous tearjerker from a rising master of them.” —Entertainment Weekly

    “Devastating, demanding and deeply moving.” —Wall Street Journal 

    The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance.

    At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge—for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle.

    The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome?
     
    Written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, BRIDGE OF CLAY is signature Zusak.

    About Bridge of Clay

    The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as “the kind of book that can be life-changing.”

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
     
    “One of those monumental books that can draw you across space and time into another family’s experience in the most profound way.” —The Washington Post

    “Mystical and loaded with heart, it’s another gorgeous tearjerker from a rising master of them.” —Entertainment Weekly

    “Devastating, demanding and deeply moving.” —Wall Street Journal 

    The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance.

    At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge—for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle.

    The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome?
     
    Written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, BRIDGE OF CLAY is signature Zusak.

    About Bridge of Clay

    The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as “the kind of book that can be life-changing.”

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
     
    “One of those monumental books that can draw you across space and time into another family’s experience in the most profound way.” —The Washington Post

    “Mystical and loaded with heart, it’s another gorgeous tearjerker from a rising master of them.” —Entertainment Weekly

    “Devastating, demanding and deeply moving.” —Wall Street Journal 

    The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance.

    At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge—for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle.

    The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome?
     
    Written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, BRIDGE OF CLAY is signature Zusak.

    About Bridge of Clay

    The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as “the kind of book that can be life-changing.”

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
     
    “One of those monumental books that can draw you across space and time into another family’s experience in the most profound way.” —The Washington Post

    “Mystical and loaded with heart, it’s another gorgeous tearjerker from a rising master of them.” —Entertainment Weekly

    “Devastating, demanding and deeply moving.” —Wall Street Journal 

    The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance.

    At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge—for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle.

    The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome?
     
    Written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, BRIDGE OF CLAY is signature Zusak.

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    Markus Zusak is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of The Book Thief, I Am the Messenger, Fighting Ruben Wolf, and Getting the Girl. His newest, much-anticipated novel, Bridge of Clay, will release in October 2018. He lives in Sydney, Australia,… More about Markus Zusak

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    About Markus Zusak

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    About Markus Zusak

    Markus Zusak is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of The Book Thief, I Am the Messenger, Fighting Ruben Wolf, and Getting the Girl. His newest, much-anticipated novel, Bridge of Clay, will release in October 2018. He lives in Sydney, Australia,… More about Markus Zusak

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    About Markus Zusak

    Markus Zusak is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of The Book Thief, I Am the Messenger, Fighting Ruben Wolf, and Getting the Girl. His newest, much-anticipated novel, Bridge of Clay, will release in October 2018. He lives in Sydney, Australia,… More about Markus Zusak

    About Markus Zusak

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    Product Details

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues

    Paperback | $14.99
    Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
    Oct 08, 2019 | 560 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | Young Adult | ISBN 9780375845604

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues

    Hardcover | $26.00
    Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
    Oct 09, 2018 | 544 Pages | 6 x 9 | Young Adult | ISBN 9780375845598

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues

    Hardcover | $26.00
    Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
    Oct 09, 2018 | 544 Pages | 6 x 9 | Young Adult | ISBN 9781984830159

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues

    Hardcover | $29.00
    Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
    Oct 09, 2018 | 544 Pages | 6 x 9 | Young Adult | ISBN 9780375945595

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
    Oct 09, 2018 | 544 Pages | Young Adult | ISBN 9780375896996

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues | Audiobooks

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    Published by Listening Library
    Oct 16, 2018 | 870 Minutes | Young Adult | ISBN 9780307711076

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $25.00
    Published by Listening Library
    Oct 09, 2018 | 884 Minutes | Young Adult | ISBN 9780307711083

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    Praise

    “This book is a stunner. Devastating, demanding and deeply moving, Bridge of Clay unspools like a kind of magic act in reverse, with feats of narrative legerdemain concealed by misdirection that all make sense only when the elements of the trick are finally laid out.” —Wall Street Journal

    “Markus Zusak crafts an unforgettable saga.” —US Weekly

    “In a complex narrative that leaps through time and place and across oceans, Zusak paints a vivid portrait of the brothers trying to regain their balance by keeping their family’s story alive.” —Time

    “It blew me away.” —Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of A Spark of Light and Small Great Things
     
    “A captivating book with a mighty, fearless heart, BRIDGE OF CLAY is filled with characters to believe in and care about … achingly moving, delightfully funny, and thoroughly uplifting.” —M. L. Stedman, bestselling author of The Light Between Oceans

    “If The Book Thief was a novel that allowed Death to steal the show . . . [its] brilliantly illuminated follow-up is affirmatively full of life.” —The Guardian

    “Warm and heartfelt. . . . This is a tale of love, art and redemption; rowdy and joyous, with flashes of wit and insight, and ultimately moving.” Times of London

    “With heft and historical scope, Zusak creates a sensitively rendered tale of loss, grief, and guilt’s manifestations.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

    “[A] gorgeously written novel.” —Booklist, starred review


    Praise for The Book Thief by Markus Zusak: 

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
    MORE THAN 16 MILLION COPIES SOLD
     
    “Brilliant and hugely ambitious.” –The New York Times Book Review

    “Deserves a place on the shelf with the Diary of Anne Frank . . . Poised to become a classic.” —USA Today

    “Absorbing and searing.” —Washington Post

    “Zusak’s novel is a major achievement.” –People

    “Zusak doesn’t sugarcoat anything, but he makes his ostensibly gloomy subject bearable the same way Kurt Vonnegut did in Slaughterhouse-Five: with grim, darkly consoling humor.” –Time

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