An Abundance of Katherines. I'll admit.
I was thrown by the cover. If I hadn't been familiar with John Green's impressive debut, LOOKING FOR ALASKA, I might have passed AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES by, assuming it was a self-help book. But nothing was going to stop me from diving straight into Green's sophomore offering. There is a condition in the book world that goes by many names, most often known as "sophomoritis. " This refers to the follow-up work by a debut novelist where said follow-up is often judged to be inferior to the original work that caused a stir. I am pleased to report: there will be none of that here. AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES is the story of Colin Singleton who, at the end of his high school career, is unceremoniously dumped by a girl named Katherine. The pair takes a road trip to Gutshot, Tennessee, where they are hired to chronicle the town's oral history and find themselves involved with the locals in ways they never imagined. An Abundance of Katherines. When it comes to relationships, everyone has a type.
Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. He has dated–and been dumped by–19 Katherines. In the wake of The K-19 Debacle, Colin–an anagram-obsessed washed-up child prodigy–heads out on a road trip with his overweight, Judge Judy- loving friend Hassan. With 10,000 dollars in his pocket and a feral hog on his trail, Colin is on a mission to prove a mathematical theorem he hopes will predict the future of any relationship (and conceivably win the girl). An Abundance of Katherines was a 2007 Michael L. Reviews (Spoiler Alert!) “Imagine an operating room at the start of a daring but well-rehearsed procedure and you will have something of the atmosphere of ”An Abundance of Katherines”: every detail considered, the action unrolling with grace and inevitability.”
-New York Times Book Review “Green follows his Printz winning Looking for Alaska (2005) with another sharp, intelligent story. An Abundance of Katherines: John Green: 9780142410707: Amazon.com. An Abundance of Katherines. An appendix explaining some of the more complex equations Colin uses throughout the story was written by Daniel Biss, a close friend to Green.
Following the announcement of the name of his latest book, The Fault in Our Stars, after which John Green's fans made hundreds of book covers, Penguin announced a contest in which they would allow the fans (known as "nerdfighters") to design the new cover of An Abundance of Katherines. Plot summary[edit] Colin Singleton is an anagram-loving seventeen-year-old boy who has become depressed because though he has maintained his status of a prodigy, he has not yet become a “genius.”
He wishes to accomplish this goal by having a Eureka moment. As well as not being the genius he hopes to be, his girlfriend, Katherine XIX, recently dumped him (over the span of his life, Colin has dated nineteen girls named Katherine, all spelled in that manner). Awards[edit] An Abundance of Katherines was a 2007 Michael L. Film adaption[edit] References[edit] An Abundance of Katherines by John Green.