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. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that the perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted observing teenager, through his freshman year of high school in a Pittsburgh suburb.
Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a young adult coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky, which was first published on February 1, 1999, by Pocket Books. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. Stephen Chbosky has been influenced by a lot of angsty classics, like The Graduate and Catcher in the Rye.In 1999, he made his own contribution to the canon, releasing The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a young-adult novel whose tough themes helped make it a formidable word-of-mouth success, becoming the best-selling title from MTV Books by 2000. This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being A WALLFLOWER This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs.
Driven by these laughable creatures, which confuse more than they entertain or stir, the boy enlists fellow 7-year-olds Matt, Mike and Special Ed to build a magical fort, which they locate on a tree that Chbosky describes, impossibly, as a “crooked hand ripping out of the earth’s cheek like a pimple.Offers a unique perspective. He is inspired to action by a cloud that is shaped like a human but not a man or woman, a “nice man” who tells the boy what to do, and (no joke) a talking white plastic bag.
” Now, after two decades, he’s released a much-awaited second novel.Īt the center of the sprawling horror story “Imaginary Friend” is Kate and her son Chris, who is only 7 but already has witnessed his father’s suicide and been forced to move to a small town in Pennsylvania to escape Mom’s difficult boyfriend.Ĭhris isn’t a believable character. Since then, Chbosky has directed a TV show, “Jericho,” and also the film “Wonder. The hit film adaptation starred Emma Watson and was produced by John Malkovich. Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Quoted in more than a few college application essays, Stephen Chbosky’s 1999 novel “ The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is a moving and heartfelt portrait of teens suffering the indignities of high school.
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