The Perks of Being a Wallflower
About this book
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a young adult coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky, which was first published on February 1, 1999, by Pocket Books. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted observing teenager, through his freshman year of high school in a Pittsburgh suburb. The novel details Charlie's unconventional style of thinking as he navigates between the worlds of adolescence and adulthood, and attempts to deal with poignant questions spurred by his interactions with both his friends and family.
Subjects
- abuse
- adolescence
- american fiction
- bildungsroman
- bildungsromans
- children's fiction
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- coming of age
- coming-of-age
- diaries, fiction
- diary fiction
- diary novels
- drug use
- emotions, fiction
- epistolary fiction
- fiction
- fiction classics
- friendship
- friendship, fiction
- high school students
- infinite
- introversion
- juvenile fiction
- juvenile works
- letters
- letters, fiction
- literary fiction
- loss (psychology)
- mental health
- music
- new york times bestseller
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- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 6
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- repression
- schools, fiction
- sexuality
- social conditions
- teenagers
- translations into vietnamese
- young adult fiction
- young adult works
- youth, fiction