Stephen Chbosky’s amazing bestseller, a moving novel of growing up (Catcher in the Rye for New Times, as critics say), which has sold over a million copies and was filmed by the author himself, with one of the main roles in the film played by Emma Watson — aka Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter films. Charlie goes to high school. Fearing what awaits him there after a recent nervous breakdown, he begins to write letters to someone whom he has never seen in his life, but who, he is sure, should understand him well. Charlie doesn’t like going to dances because he usually likes songs that you can’t dance to. Each new book he read on the advice of Bill, a literature teacher, immediately becomes Charlie’s favorite: To Kill a Mockingbird, Peter Pan, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, On the Road, Naked breakfast «… Bill advises Charlie» to be not a sponge, but a filter «, and he honestly tries. Charlie is also trying not to remember deeply forgotten childhood traumas and to sort out his feelings for high school student Sam, the sister of his friend Patrick, nicknamed Nothing ..
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
by Stephen Chbosky
Copyright © 1999 by Stephen Chbosky
All rights reserved
© E. Petrova, translation, notes, 2013
© Publishing Group LLC
«Azbuka-Atticus» «, 2013
Publishing house AZBUKA®
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