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Product Details
MTV Books, February 1999
Trade Paperback, 224 pages
ISBN-10: 0671027344
ISBN-13: 9780671027346
Description
Standing on the fringes of life...
offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.
This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.
Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 10, 2011
...in Bethel Park, which she called home -- for part of the spring and summer while filming "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" in Pittsburgh. "The shooting schedule's been kind of crazy. It's such a great group of people, and we all got so close ...
New York Times, October 7, 2011
...And I get to do it for this movie. The film, an adaptation of the young-adult novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a beloved coming-of-age tale published in 1999, will be the next starring role for Ms. Watson, 21, and practically her first ...
New York Times, October 7, 2011
...And I get to do it for this movie. The film, an adaptation of the young-adult novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a beloved coming-of-age tale published in 1999, will be the next starring role for Ms. Watson, 21, and practically her first ...
Paisano Online.com, September 28, 2011
...Although "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" is overly simplistic in language and envelopes the essence of J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" all too much, Stephen Chbosky's novel ...
Whiteboard Journal, September 21, 2011
...here and there, “Little Bee” is one of the most emotional novels that I have ever read. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Everyone must have felt the fragility of being an adolescent—a moment where you are trying to ...
Examiner.com, September 11, 2011
...figure out how that could be," writes Charlie in his first letter of this epistolary novel by Stephen Chbosky. In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie is a freshman in high school who begins writing letters to an anonymous "friend," ...
Wicked Local Brookline, August 29, 2011
...the meaning of love. MAIN: (Shelf Respect Teen Literature Book Club) Wednesday, Sept. 14, 7 p.m., “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” by Stephen Chbosky. “This is the story of what it’s like to grow up in high school. More intimate ...
Roanoke Times, November 16, 2009
...to the school board. If that occurs, each board member should set aside an evening to read 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' before passing judgment. Jerry Canada said as much to a fellow school board member who disagreed with the ...
Roanoke Times, November 13, 2009
...or the content of the book, I would argue that this was a good thing. The book "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" A controversial novel challenged by the parent of a Roanoke County high school student will not be banned, but school officials ...
NWI Times, October 20, 2009
...* 'Bless Me, Ultima,' by Rudolfo Anaya, for Satanism, offensive language, violence and sexual explicitness. * *'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' by Stephen Chbosky, for drugs, homosexuality, nudity, suicide, sexual explicitness. * 'Gossip ...
