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{{quote|''"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."''|'''The book's most famous quote.'''}} |
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The first novel by Stephen Chbosky. It was first published in 1999. |
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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]] and ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''. |
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]] and ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''. |
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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. |
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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A movie, written, directed, and produced by Chbosky, was released in 2012. [[Logan Lerman]] and [[Emma Watson]] play Charlie and Sam respectively, and [[Mae Whitman]] plays Mary Elizabeth. |
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Chbosky wrote ''[[Imaginary Friend (novel)|Imaginary Friend]]'' as a follow-up to this novel; it was published in 2019. |
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