Review: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

 

Title: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

 

Series: Stand-Alone

 

Author: Benjamin Alire Sáenz

 

Genre: YA, LGBT, Contemporary Romance

 

Published Date: February 21st 2012 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

 

Format: Hardcover

 

Source: Library

 

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A lyrical novel about family and friendship from critically acclaimed author Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship—the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be.

 

 

 

 

 

Aristotale and Danta Discover the Secrets of the Universe is a very beautiful heart warming and coming of age book for me. I never read a lot of coming of age books but I heard and seen nothing but great and amazing reviews about this book and Ohh my I am so glad and happy that I grab it at the library as soon as I saw it I had to get my hands on it! I read it in just two days it was unputdownable yes it was that amazing for me. I just had to read more about Ari and Danta two loners who become best friends when the first met at the pool during the summer time of 87 and they both were struggling in there life as they both were growing into young men. It broke my heart and I felt there pain when they were struggling to learn and understand more about them self and each other it was an amazing plot and the world building about Danta and Ari friendship growing and about there life it was very beautiful and very enjoyable to read! It has an amazing plot, world building and great characters building that Mr Benjamin Alire Saenz created I just love it all! I especially love Mr Alire Saenz beautiful lyrical poetry writing style I never read anything like it before and the ending was pure perfect! I highly recommend this amazingly beautiful book to all my family and friends!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Benjamin Alire Sáenz (born 16 August 1954) is an award-winning American poet, novelist and writer of children's books.

He was born at Old Picacho, New Mexico, the fourth of seven children, and was raised on a small farm near Mesilla, New Mexico. He graduated from Las Cruces High School in 1972. That fall, he entered St. Thomas Seminary in Denver, Colorado where he received a B.A. degree in Humanities and Philosophy in 1977. He studied Theology at the University of Louvain in Leuven, Belgium from 1977 to 1981. He was a priest for a few years in El Paso, Texas before leaving the order.

In 1985, he returned to school, and studied English and Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso where he earned an M.A. degree in Creative Writing. He then spent a year at the University of Iowa as a PhD student in American Literature. A year later, he was awarded a Wallace E. Stegner fellowship. While at Stanford University under the guidance of Denise Levertov, he completed his first book of poems, Calendar of Dust, which won an American Book Award in 1992. He entered the Ph.D. program at Stanford and continued his studies for two more years. Before completing his Ph.D., he moved back to the border and began teaching at the University of Texas at El Paso in the bilingual MFA program.

His first novel, Carry Me Like Water was a saga that brought together the Victorian novel and the Latin American tradition of magic realism and received much critical attention.

In The Book of What Remains (Copper Canyon Press, 2010), his fifth book of poems, he writes to the core truth of life's ever-shifting memories. Set along the Mexican border, the contrast between the desert's austere beauty and the brutality of border politics mirrors humanity's capacity for both generosity and cruelty.

In 2005, he curated a show of photographs by Julian Cardona.

He continues to teach in the Creative Writing Department at the University of Texas at El Paso.