Everything, Everything
Cataloged here under the title Everything, Everything, this entry holds Douglas Adams's Life, the Universe and Everything, the third installment of his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Arthur Dent, marooned on prehistoric Earth, is yanked back into intergalactic chaos when a Chesterfield sofa floats across a hillside and reunites him with Ford Prefect. The two soon learn that the immortal denizens of the planet Krikkit, the most genocidal cricketers in cosmic history, are bent on annihilating every other lifeform in the universe, and that the key to stopping them lies scattered across improbable corners of space and time. Adams stitches together flying parties, robot armies, the legendary Wikkit Gate, and a permanently insulted alien named Wowbagger into one of his most plot-driven adventures. The novel keeps the dry British wit and philosophical absurdism of the earlier books while delivering an ending that genuinely concerns the survival of, well, everything.
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Eighteen-year-old Madeline Whittier has SCID, a rare condition that makes the outside world deadly to her. She has not left her sterile house in seventeen years. Then a family with a teenage son moves in next door.
Everything, Everything was written by Nicola Yoon and published in 2015. It was Nicola Yoon's debut YA novel. Yoon has since written The Sun Is Also a Star, Instructions for Dancing, and One of Our Kind.
Yes. A 2017 film adaptation directed by Stella Meghie and starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson was released. The film follows the novel closely and was a modest commercial success.
Everything, Everything is 210 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Everything, Everything takes most readers 3 to 5 hours to finish.
Everything, Everything is a standalone novel by Douglas Adams, not part of a series.
Everything, Everything is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.