- Brothers, Fiction, Self-reliance, Fiction in English
The love between two teenage brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up.
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Earnest, classical in form, spare and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- S. E. Hinton
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 194
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press, Gollancz, Victor Gollancz
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780590370158
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“"There ain't no bear in that bush," I said.”
Susan Eloise Hinton published her first book, *The Outsiders*, at the age of 17. Her publisher suggested she publish under her initials instead of her feminine so that book reviewers would not dismiss the novel because its author was female, and she continued to publish using her initials because of the success of her first book and because she did not want to be famous. In 1979, Hinton was the first recipient of the Margaret Edwards Award, presented by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the ALA for work which depicts the experiences and emotions of teenagers and is widely accepted by young people. That same year, The Outsiders was named best novel by the New York Ti
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