{"product_id":"the-outsiders-9780141189116","title":"The Outsiders","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): S.E. Hinton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise, S.E. Hinton's \u003ci\u003eThe Outsiders\u003c\/i\u003e is a young adult novel of enduring power. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is published with an introduction by Jodi Picoult, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Sister's Keeper\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Outsiders \u003c\/i\u003ewas 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. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSusan Eloise Hinton (b. 1950) wrote her first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Outsiders\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1967, when she was seventeen years old. Hinton is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThat Was When\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThis Is Now\u003c\/i\u003e (1971), adapted into a film starring Emilio Estevez and Morgan Freeman;\u003ci\u003e Rumble Fish\u003c\/i\u003e (1975), also adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Mickey Rourke, Nicholas Cage and Dennis Hopper; \u003ci\u003eTex\u003c\/i\u003e (1979); \u003ci\u003eTaming the Star Runner\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), and many others. Hinton lives in Oklahoma.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eThe Outsiders\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like Jack Kerouac's \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Gritty, emotional and very authentic'\u003cbr\u003eJodi Picoult\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Outsiders\u003c\/i\u003e is a teenage epic'\u003cbr\u003eFrancis Ford Coppola\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45087488737431,"sku":"9780141189116","price":325.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780141189116.webp?v=1769202786","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-outsiders-9780141189116","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}