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The first novel by Stephen Chbosky, '''''The Perks of Being a Wallflower''''' was first published in 1999.
The narrator, 16-year-old Charlie, is just starting high school as a freshman, having been held back a couple of years for reasons of being in the hospital due to being emotionally damaged. The novel primarily concerns Charlie's adventures in the '91-'92 school year, and is written as an [[Epistolary Novel]], a collection of letters Charlie is writing to a friend-of-a-friend whom he was told would be a good listener. Charlie, who doesn't excel at much except reading, seems to be off to a bad start before two seniors, step-siblings Patrick and Sam, take him under their wing. And so begins Charlie's adventures into school, literature, dating, [[Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll]], teen pregnancy, [[Suicide (band)|suicide]]{{verify}} <!-- MOD: If this is suicide in the lethal sense, it shouldn't link to a band. And if it is a reference to a band, it should be capitalized. --> and ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''.
The book was well-received and essentially the literary version of a [[Killer App]] for its publisher, the newly-launched MTV Books. It has drawn comparisons to ''[[The Catcher in The Rye]]'', primarily for being a pull-no-punches look at high school and for having a [[Point of View|First-Person Narrator]]. It also placed 6th on 2008's List Of Most Frequently Banned Books, for similar reasons.
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