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. 1950) wrote her first book, The Outsiders, in 1967, when she was seventeen years old. 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. Hinton was only seventeen, laying bare the hopes and terrors between teenage bravado in a world of drive-ins, drag races and switchblades. The Outsiders was an audacious debut written when S.E. But a single, murderous catastrophe is to wrench him from his old life and overturn everything he thinks he knows. Ponyboy, a fourteen-year-old brawler, chainsmoker and dreamer, is a fiercely loyal greaser. The Greasers and the rich-kid Socs are at war on the Tulsa streets. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is published with an introduction by Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister's Keeper. Hinton's The Outsiders is a young adult novel of enduring power. 'Gritty, emotional and very authentic' Jodi Picoult 'The Outsiders is a teenage epic' Francis Ford CoppolaĪdapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise, S.E. If you enjoyed The Outsiders, you might like Jack Kerouac's On the Road, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. Adapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise, S.E.
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