The Outsiders

The Greasers and the rich kid Socs are at war on the Tulsa streets. Pobyboy, a fourteen year old brawler, chainsmoker and dreamer, is a fiercely loyal Greaser. But a single, murderous catastrophe is to wrench him from his old life and overturn everything he thinks he knows.

The Outsiders was an audacious debut written when S. E. Hinton was only seventeen, laying bare the hopes and terrors behind teenage bravado in a world of drive ins, drag races and switch blades. It confronted America with a new breed of anti hero from the wrong side of the class divide, and became a best selling classic of younthful rebellion.