The Outsiders

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. »