Modern Classics the Outsiders

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One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’

The bestselling American classic of youthful rebellion and coming of age on the streets, adapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola

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. Confronting America with a new breed of anti-hero from the wrong side of the class divide, The Outsiders is a young adult novel of enduring power. It was made into a film in 1983 starring Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise.

With an introduction by Jodi Picoult

‘Gritty, emotional and very authentic’ Jodi Picoult

‘The Outsiders is a teenage epic’ Francis Ford CoppolaJodi Picoult is the author of 29 novels, with 40 million copies sold worldwide. She has had 17 Sunday Times number one bestsellers. Five novels have been made into movies and Between The Lines (co-written with daughter Samantha van Leer) has been adapted as a musical. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the New England Bookseller Award for
Fiction, the Alex Award from the YA Library
Services Association, and the NH Literary
Award for Outstanding Literary Merit.
She is also the co-librettist for the musicals BREATHE and THE BOOK THIEF, which debuted in the UK in 2022.
She lives in New Hampshire with her husband.GB

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