**Now a major motion picture** It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he's figured it out. The answer to the basic existential question: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad? His strategy: remain at the periphery at all times. Keep an insanely low profile. Make mediocre films with the one person who is even sort of his friend, Earl.
This plan works for exactly eight hours. Then Greg's mother forces him to become friends with a girl who has cancer. This brings about the destruction of Greg's entire life.

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
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Publisher
Allen & UnwineBook ISBN
9781925267709
Year
2017Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER 1: HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO EXIST IN A PLACE THAT SUCKS SO BAD
- CHAPTER 2: THE FIRST DAYOF SENIOR YEARIN CONVENIENTSCRIPT FORMAT
- CHAPTER 3: LET'S JUST GETTHIS EMBARRASSINGCHAPTER OUTOF THE WAY
- CHAPTER 4: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
- CHAPTER 5: THE DYING GIRL
- CHAPTER 6: PHONE SEX
- CHAPTER 7: THE GAINES FAMILY: A SUMMARY
- CHAPTER 8: PHONE SEX II
- CHAPTER 9: A MORE OR LESS TYPICAL CONVERSATION WITH EARL
- CHAPTER 10: I PUT THE “ASS” IN “CASANOVA”
- CHAPTER 11: I, THE WRATH OF GOD, WILL MARRY MY OWN DAUGHTER, AND TOGETHER WE SHALL START THE PUREST DYNASTY THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN
- CHAPTER 12: I PUT THE “IDIOT“ IN ”VIDEOTAPE”
- CHAPTER 13: EVEN MORE EARL BACKSTORY
- CHAPTER14: CAFETERIORATION
- CHAPTER 15: GAINES/JACKSON: THE COLLECTED WORKS
- CHAPTER 16: HOPEFULLY THE END OF WHAT HAS BEEN A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF EARL BACKSTORY
- CHAPTER 17: MR. McCARTHY’S OFFICE
- CHAPTER 18: DRUGS ARE THE WORST
- CHAPTER 19: EARL BETRAYS OUR ENTIRE CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP WHILE I AM DISTRACTED BY THE MUNCHIES
- CHAPTER 20: BATMAN VERSUS SPIDER-MAN
- CHAPTER 21: TWO PONCY DUDES
- CHAPTER 22: SPIDER VERSUS WASP
- CHAPTER 23: GILBERT
- CHAPTER 24: PASTY TEEN HAS UNEVENTFUL DAY
- CHAPTER 25: A MORON’S GUIDE TO LEUKEMIA
- CHAPTER 26: HUMAN FLESH
- CHAPTER 27: YOU AND ME AND A PERPETUALLY EXPLODING TURKEY MAKES THREE
- CHAPTER 28. RACHEL THE FILM: BRAINSTORMING
- CHAPTER 29: RACHEL THE FILM: THE HALLMARK VERSION
- CHAPTER 30: RACHEL THE FILM: THE KEN BURNS VERSION
- CHAPTER 31: RACHEL THE FILM: THE SOCK PUPPET VERSION
- CHAPTER 32: RACHEL THE FILM: THE WALLACE & GROMIT VERSION
- CHAPTER 33: JESUS, NOW WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO
- CHAPTER 34: FIGHT CLUB, EXCEPT LAMER
- CHAPTER 35: DEADLINE
- CHAPTER 36: RACHEL THE FILM
- CHAPTER 37: THE ENDS OF OUR LIVES
- CHAPTER 38: AFTERMATH
- CHAPTER 39: AFTERMATH II
- CHAPTER 40: AFTERMATH III
- EPILOGUE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS