The Outsiders
Greasers vs Socs in small-town Oklahoma — the teenage classic written by a 17-year-old.
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Le mot de POP LIVRE
Un roman court qu'un lecteur de quatorze ans lit en deux ou trois soirs, en anglais d'accès facile — vocabulaire courant, phrases brèves, narrateur adolescent. Aucun prérequis. C'est un bon premier roman à lire en VO au lycée. À accompagner si le lecteur est jeune : la violence entre bandes et le deuil y occupent une place centrale, et le livre ne les adoucit pas.
Présentation
In a small Oklahoma town, teenagers have split into two gangs divided by money, taste and attitude: the privileged Socs, who beat up greasers for fun, and the greasers, who live on the wrong side of everything. Ponyboy is a greaser — and after one night goes terribly wrong, his loyalties are tested in fire. Written when S. E. Hinton was only seventeen, The Outsiders speaks teenager fluently because it was written by one: raw, romantic, unfair and true. Nearly sixty years on (Penguin Originals edition), it still owns the first line every reader remembers: « Stay gold, Ponyboy. »