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Books : Perks of Being a Wallflower |
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Binding: School & Library Binding
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780613237529
ISBN: 0613237528
Label: Topeka Bindery
Manufacturer: Topeka Bindery
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1999-09
Publisher: Topeka Bindery
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Topeka Bindery
Sales Rank: 538406
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Product 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.
Amazon.com Review:
What is most notable about this funny, touching, memorable first novel from Stephen Chbosky is the resounding accuracy with which the author captures the voice of a boy teetering on the brink of adulthood. Charlie is a freshman. And while's he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's a wallflower--shy and introspective, and intelligent beyond his years, if not very savvy in the social arts. We learn about Charlie through the letters he writes to someone of undisclosed name, age, and gender, a stylistic technique that adds to the heart-wrenching earnestness saturating this teen's story. Charlie encounters the same struggles that many kids face in high school--how to make friends, the intensity of a crush, family tensions, a first relationship, exploring sexuality, experimenting with drugs--but he must also deal with his best friend's recent suicide. Charlie's letters take on the intimate feel of a journal as he shares his day-to-day thoughts and feelings:
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why. With the help of a teacher who recognizes his wisdom and intuition, and his two friends, seniors Samantha and Patrick, Charlie mostly manages to avoid the depression he feels creeping up like kudzu. When it all becomes too much, after a shocking realization about his beloved late Aunt Helen, Charlie retreats from reality for awhile. But he makes it back in due time, ready to face his sophomore year and all that it may bring. Charlie, sincerely searching for that feeling of "being infinite," is a kindred spirit to the generation that's been slapped with the label X. --Brangien Davis
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This book is amazing. it opened my eyes to so much and i am so thankful!
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"Perks" was my first book that followed me everywhere. It was my first MTV book (still the best one I've read so far!) and it was my first book that stated things EXACTLY as they were meant. No wishy washy sentences here! It was real down to its core.
I loved it.
It was a book that I passed out to my friends to read. If I didn't get it back, I stalked them until they got sick of seeing my face.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky provides an in-depth look of what it is like to grow up in high school. While the sex, drugs, and teen angst may all seem a little cliché, Chbosky does an amazing job of realistically portraying high school situations in a uniquely hilarious way through the protagonist Charlie. The story is told through Charlie's devastating letters to whom the reader may not know he is writing. The theme woven through Charlie's letters is his constant struggle ... Read More
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This is not The Catcher In the Rye. That is a good thing. Every story should be able to own itself and not come across as the newest, revamped model of a well loved book that was written decades ago.
This the heartbreaking story of a brilliant, emotionally stunted, socially inept, well-meaning, sweet boy. It's a story told from his point of view in a series of letters to stranger. For those who find the writing stilted, the main character flawed, the story unbelievable, or the likelihood ... Read More
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The Truth: I'm a Girl, I'm Smart and I Know EverythingThe Perks of Being a Wallflower really is a psychological masterpiece. It speaks with a universal voice and tone that almost all teens share in common, at least some of the time. It helps teens to feel at home with the inner and outer pushes and pulls of growing up and it helps parents understand better what they may have long forgotten. We all need this type of reality check as it is so easy to feel alone growing up and it is also so easy to forget ... Read More
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