Author: Stephen Chbosky
Translator: Hyeok Kwon
Publisher: Dodeulsaegim
312 pages
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About This Book
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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