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Modern Classics the Outsiders (Penguin Modern Classics)

von S. E. Hinton

Format:Softcover

Adapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise, S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders is a young adult novel of enduring power. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is published with an introduction by Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister's Keeper. The Greasers and the rich-kid Socs are at war on the Tulsa streets. Ponyboy, a fourteen-year-old brawler, chainsmoker and dreamer, is a fiercely loyal greaser. But a single, murderous catastrophe is to wrench him from his old life and overturn everything he thinks he knows. The Outsiders was an audacious debut written when S.E. Hinton was only seventeen, laying bare the hopes and terrors between teenage bravado in a world of drive-ins, drag races and switchblades. It confronted America with a new breed of anti-hero from the wrong side of the class divide, and became a bestselling classic of youthful rebellion. Susan Eloise Hinton (b. 1950) wrote her first book, The Outsiders, in 1967, when she was seventeen years old. Hinton is also the author of That Was When, This Is Now (1971), adapted into a film starring Emilio Estevez and Morgan Freeman; Rumble Fish (1975), also adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Mickey Rourke, Nicholas Cage and Dennis Hopper; Tex (1979); Taming the Star Runner (1988), and many others. Hinton lives in Oklahoma. If you enjoyed The Outsiders, you might like Jack Kerouac's On the Road, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Gritty, emotional and very authentic' Jodi Picoult 'The Outsiders is a teenage epic' Francis Ford Coppola

Literary & Contemporary Fiction
Softcover
Erschienen an: 2007-05-29

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4.8(4 ratings)
Olivia Rezension von Olivia

Absolute 10/10, hab die letzten 30 Seiten nur noch geweint.

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Es ist ein coming of age Roman, der in den 60er Jahren spielt. Es handelt sich um den Konflikt zweier Jugendbanden: die, die in wohlhabenden Umständen leben, und die bescheideneren, ärmeren Jungs. Wir begleiten den jungen, verträumten und sensiblen Ponyboy, der nach dem Tod seiner Eltern alleine mit seinen zwei älteren Brüdern lebt. Es geht viel um die Themen Banden, Gewalt, aber auch Freundschaft und Opferbereitschaft. Das Thema des Buches ist gewissermaßen hart, dennoch ist die Geschichte sehr gefühlvoll und emotional beladen und das Ende ist sehr traurig. Ich habe das Buch sehr genossen und finde, es ist einer der gelungensten coming of age Romane.

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