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Title	:	What I Was
Author	:	Meg Rosoff
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 209 pages
Published	:	January 24th 2008 by Viking Adult (first published August 30th 2007)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Coming Of Age

What I Was

Meg Rosoff

Hardcover | Pages: 209 pages

Rating: 3.49 | 3950 Users | 507 Reviews

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An unusual coming-of-age story that examines the fluidity of identity and the ways in which people consciously redefine themselves in the face of love. In the not too distant future, a one-hundred-year-old man called H sails the eastern coast of England with his godson. H recalls when he himself was sixteen—his godson’s age—as they search for the site of H’s life-altering friendship with a boy named Finn. Finn lives alone on an isolated slip of land and follows no rules: he spends his days swimming, fishing, and collecting driftwood for his tiny beach hut. H, on the other hand, is an upper-class boarding school boy stifled by monotony and endless rules. They meet by chance on the beach, and H is immediately awed by (and jealous of) Finn’s way of life. They strike up an unlikely friendship but the gap between their lives becomes difficult to bridge, and before long the idyll that nurtured their relationship is shattered by heart-wrenching scandal. Meg Rosoff was formerly a YA author, but her work transcends categorization and we are delighted to bring it to adult readers for the first time. What I Was is a timeless, enthralling story destined to become a classic.

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Original Title:	What I Was
ISBN:	0670018449 (ISBN13: 9780670018444)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Goldener Lufti (2010), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2008)

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Ratings: 3.49 From 3950 Users | 507 Reviews

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I've always enjoyed everything I've read by Rosoff, and this was no exception. This book has an elderly man looking back at the year he was sixteen. The year was 1962 and he was in his third boarding school, having been kicked out of the previous two. He has no real ambition and tries to keep to himself and do as little as possible, that is until he meets another young man, who lives alone in a hut on the beach. When he meets Finn, he finds himself drawn to the life Finn lives, simple, doing

I read this when it first came out and absolutely loved it, so when I had the opportunity to re-read it I took it for two reasons: 1. to see if I still loved it and 2. to see if I could figure this book out.Number 1. is still correct. I absolutely loved this book, reading it for I think the third or fourth time? But about six years since I last read it. The characters, the writing, the setting, I love all of it. Once again, I was completely sucked in, with no choice but to let Meg Rosoff take me

I think I'm losing faith in Meg Rosoff.I LOVED How I Live Now, so much so that I even consider it one of my favourite books of all time, and when Just In Case came out, I snapped it up immediately. It too was a bit of a let down. This novel was well-written and immersive but ultimately I didn't come away from the book feeling like I'd been changed or learned something significant having read it. As a matter of fact, it didn't even feel like Rosoff was trying to tell me anything at all.I figured

A beguiling book, with strange and mysterious undertones. Beginning with the life of a school boy at St Oswald's school, who feels isolated from the other boys and though an intelligent lad finds it difficult to fit in at the school or at home, both proving to be hostile environments.Then he meets Finn, who manages to survive alone in a primitive hut, very self sufficient, a handsome person with whom our hero swiftly falls in love. This love story is the main focus of the novel, the way that our

I miss books like this. Its been so long since Ive come across one. What I Was found me today at Chapters. I cant even tell you where. Was it on a table (20 books to read before youre 20? Maybe New & Hot Teen Fiction?), or maybe just there on the shelf. I have no idea now. But anyway. I picked it up and read the back and got chills up my spine. This was a book I had to read, even if it tore my guts out (which it did, mostly).What I Was is the story of H. 16 years old and shuffled off to his

Not as brilliant as "How I Live Now," (really, what can be?), but still a thoroughly good read. I really enjoy Ms. Rosoff's way with words, she is really skilled at describing a scene and various characters' reactions to it without spelling it all out for you. Perhaps because I have always been partial to stories of children & teens surviving out in the wilderness on their own with no adults (i.e., My Side of the Mountain, Julie of Wolves, The Boxcar Children, etc, etc), I really enjoyed her

Meg Rosoff's tale of friendship and longing takes place in 1962 East Anglia, where our narrator has been sent to St. Oswald's, a boys' boarding school of "long history and low standards," after being sent down from two other schools, having failed to show proper enthusiasm for sport and Empire. The food is wretched, the dormitories freezing, and soon this particular sixteen-year-old finds himself drawn to a simple hut on the coast, where a boy his age called Finn lives alone, what we would today