![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Universe Versus Alex Woods is Extence's début novel and is the everyday tale of a teenage science nerd hit by a meteorite who strikes up a friendship with a pot-smoking Vietnam veteran. He has a PhD in Film studies, is married, has a daughter and is also a keen chess player. He won the Waterstones 11 literary prize for his first book The Universe Versus Alex Woods (2013). Gavin Extence is a contemporary English writer. Introducing a bright young voice destined to charm the world, The Universe Versus Alex Woods is a celebration of curious incidents, astronomy and astrology, the works of Kurt Vonnegut and the unexpected connections that form our world. So when, aged seventeen, Alex is stopped at customs with 113 grams of marijuana, an urn full of ashes on the front seat, and an entire nation in uproar, he's fairly sure he's done the right thing. Someone who teaches him that that you only get one shot at life. The son of a fortune teller, bookish, and an easy target for bullies, Alex hasn't had the easiest childhood.īut when he meets curmudgeonly widower Mr. A rare meteorite struck Alex Woods when he was ten years old, leaving scars and marking him for an extraordinary future. ![]()
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