Name: The Outsiders (Penguin Classics)
SKU: 1803056
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Author: Jodi Picoult
ISBN: 9780143039853

portada The Outsiders (Penguin Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

S. E. Hinton

Introduction by

Jodi Picoult

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.3x12.7x1.3 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN

0143039857

ISBN13

9780143039853

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Outsiders (Penguin Classics) "

Celebrate the 50th anniversary (April, 2017) of a landmark coming-of-age American novel with a Penguin Classics edition featuring an introduction by Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister's Keeper. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read First published in 1967, S. E. Hinton's novel was an immediate phenomenon. Today, with more than eight million copies sold, The Outsiders continues to resonate with its powerful portrait of the bonds and boundaries of friendship.In Ponyboy's world there are two types of people. There are the Socs, the rich society kids who get away with anything. Then there are the greasers, like Ponyboy, who aren't so lucky. Ponyboy has a few things he can count on: his older brothers, his friends, and trouble with the Socs, whose idea of a good time is beating up greasers. At least he knows what to expect-until the night things go too far. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

S. E. Hinton

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SE Hinton (born July 22, 1950 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA) is an American author known for writing about the tough social system that teenagers create among themselves. Her fiction that describes that system struck a chord with readers, who saw in it many elements of the system that existed in their own schools and cities.

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Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult es una escritora estadounidense nacida el 19 de mayo de 1966 en Nesconset, Nueva York. Estudió Literatura Inglesa en la Universidad de Princeton y posteriormente obtuvo una maestría en Educación en la Universidad de Harvard. Antes de dedicarse por completo a la escritura, trabajó como editora de textos y profesora.

Picoult publicó su primera novela, Songs of the Humpback Whale, en 1992. Desde entonces, ha construido una extensa trayectoria literaria, con novelas que suelen abordar temas sociales, familiares y éticos complejos. Entre sus obras más conocidas se encuentran My Sister’s Keeper, Nineteen Minutes, Small Great Things, The Storyteller y Mad Honey, esta última escrita en colaboración con Jennifer Finney Boylan.

Una característica de sus novelas es la presentación de diferentes puntos de vista sobre un mismo conflicto, lo que permite explorar dilemas relacionados con la familia, la justicia, la discriminación, la identidad y la responsabilidad personal. Varias de sus obras han sido adaptadas al cine y la televisión.

A lo largo de su carrera, Picoult ha alcanzado reconocimiento internacional y sus libros han sido traducidos a numerosos idiomas. Su narrativa se caracteriza por combinar historias familiares con cuestiones sociales y morales que invitan al lector a reflexionar sobre distintas perspectivas.

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