Summary
No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he’s got things figured out. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends--true friends who would do anything for him, like Johnny and Two-Bit. And when it comes to the Socs--a vicious gang of rich kids who enjoy beating up on "greasers" like him and his friends--he knows that he can count on then for trouble. But one night someone takes things too far, and Ponyboy's world is turned upside down...
The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel set in 1965 by S.E. Hinton. It was first published in 1967. Hinton started the novel when she was 15 but did most of the writing at 16 as a junior in high school. The story was inspired by an incident in which a friend of Hinton' was jumped for being a "Greaser.” “At the time I was mad about the social situation in my high school. I desperately wanted something to read that dealt realistically with teen-age life.”(S.E. Hinton)
Praise for The Outsiders
"The Outsiders transformed young-adult fiction from a genre mostly about prom queens, football players and high school crushes to one that portrayed a darker, truer world."
-New York Times
"[A] classic coming-of-age book."
-Philadelphia Daily News
"Taut with tension, filled with drama."
-Chicago Tribune
"What it's like to live lonely and unwanted and cornered by circumstance....There is rawness and violence here, but honest hope, too."
-National Observer
“remarkable…a moving, credible view of the outsiders from the inside.”
-Horn Book
“with an astute ear and a lively sense of the restless rhythms of the young, also explores the tenacious loyalties on both sides of the class divide.:
-Atlantic Monthly“Young readers will waive literary discrimination about a book of this kind and adopt Ponyboy as a kind of folk hero for both his exploits and his dialogue.”
-Times Literary Supplement
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