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The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press. The book details the conflict between two rival gangs of White Americans divided by their socioeconomic status : the working-class " Greasers " and the upper-middle-class "Socs" (pronounced / ˈ s oʊ ʃ ɪ z / SOH -shiz —short for Socials ).
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The Bukowski books were the poet's first major publications. For the first issue of The Outsider , the Webbs painstakingly printed each page of every copy individually on an archaic hand- press in their French Quarter New Orleans apartment; later three issues were printed on a slightly less outdated 19th century clamshell press.
The Outsiders was Hinton's first published book in 1967; Hinton started the book at the age of fifteen. [1] Hinton based the characters, the Greasers and the Socs, off of teenage gangs and alienated youth in her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma during the 1960s. The Outsiders has sold over fourteen
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Terry Maitland - A Flint City Boys Little League coach. He becomes the prime suspect of the murder of an eleven-year-old boy, but maintains his innocence. He is killed by the boy’s brother outside the courthouse. Jeannie Anderson - Ralph’s wife. She is extremely disturbed by the murder and assists Ralph while he battles the case emotionally.
The Outsider is a novel by American author Richard Wright, first published in 1953. The Outsider is Richard Wright's second installment in a story of epic proportions, a complex master narrative to show American racism in raw and ugly terms.
Since then, the book has sold more than 14 million copies. [8] In 2017, Viking Press stated the book sells over 500,000 copies a year. [3] Hinton's publisher suggested she use her initials instead of her feminine given names so that the first [11] male book reviewers would not dismiss the novel because its author was female.