{"product_id":"the-outsiders-modern-classics","title":"The Outsiders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise, S.E. Hinton's \u003cem\u003eThe Outsiders\u003c\/em\u003e is a young adult novel of enduring power. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is published with an introduction by Jodi Picoult, author of \u003cem\u003eMy Sister's Keeper\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Outsiders\u003c\/em\u003e was 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\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSusan Eloise Hinton (b. 1950) wrote her first book, \u003cem\u003eThe Outsiders\u003c\/em\u003e, in 1967, when she was seventeen years old. Hinton is also the author of \u003cem\u003eThat Was When, This Is Now\u003c\/em\u003e (1971), adapted into a film starring Emilio Estevez and Morgan Freeman; \u003cem\u003eRumble Fish\u003c\/em\u003e (1975), also adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Mickey Rourke, Nicholas Cage and Dennis Hopper; \u003cem\u003eTex \u003c\/em\u003e(1979); \u003cem\u003eTaming the Star Runner\u003c\/em\u003e (1988), and many others. Hinton lives in Oklahoma.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Modern Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46999928995997,"sku":"9780141189116","price":65.0,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/9780141189116_mph.jpg?v=1753313925","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/the-outsiders-modern-classics","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}