- Fiction, Social problems, Friendship, Juvenile fiction
Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and spare.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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- Author
- S. E. Hinton
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 159
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Victor Gollancz, Collins
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English, und
- ISBN
- 9780812416756
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“Mark and me went down to the bar/pool hall about two or three blocks from where we lived with the sole intention of making some money.”
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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