A tale of an unlikely friendship and an improbable journey, Alex's story might just strike you as one of the funniest, most heartbreaking novels you'll read this year. Alex Woods knows that he hasn't had the most conventional start in life. He knows that growing up with a clairvoyant single mother won't endear him to the local" bullies. He also knows that even the most improbable events can happen - he's got the scars to prove it. What he doesn't know yet is that when he meets ill-tempered, reclusive widower Mr Peterson, he'll make an unlikely friend. Someone who tells him that you only get one shot at life. That you have to make the best possible choices. So when, aged seventeen, Alex s stopped at Dover customs with 113 grams of marijuana, in urn full of ashes on the passenger seat, and an entire nation in uproar, he's fairly sure he's done the right thing. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Universe Versus Alex Woods (Gavin Extence)