书名： The Outsiders 局外人

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数750L

作者：S.E. Hinton苏珊·依·辛顿

出版社名称：Penguin Classics

出版时间：2007

语种： 英文

ISBN：9780141189116

商品尺寸：13.2 x 1 x 20.3 cm

包装：平装

页数：160 （以实物为准）

The Outsiders《局外人》，是弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉执导，C·托马斯·豪威尔、马特·狄龙、拉尔夫·马奇奥主演同名电影《局外人》（又译作《小教父》）的原著小说，作者是美国青少年女作家苏珊·依·辛顿（S.E. Hinton）。 苏珊·依·辛顿写《局外人》时年仅17岁。这部小说首次剖析了生活在贫困街区的野孩子的内心世界，鞭答了富人子弟对野孩子的歧视与迫害，因此一出版就在广大青少年中引起了震撼，被誉为一部反传统的，具有开拓性的优秀青少年读物。在美国1992年的图书市场调查中，该书曾被评为畅销书。拍成电影后更是深受广大青少年的喜爱。苏珊·依·辛顿本人也因她的多部成功小说获得了美国图书馆协会授予的玛格丽特·埃·爱德华奖，以表彰她对青少年教育所作出的贡献。 推荐理由： 1.《局外人》科波拉经典电影英文原著； 2. 美国著名青少年文学力作； 3. 英文原版，内容无删减，由《姐姐的守护者》作者Jodi Picoult作序； Adapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise, S.E. Hinton’sThe Outsiders is a young adult novel of enduring power. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is published with an introduction by Jodi Picoult, author ofMy Sister’s Keeper. The Greasers and the rich-kid Socs are at war on the Tulsa streets. Ponyboy, 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 between teenage bravado in a world of drive-ins, drag races and switchblades. It confronted America with a new breed of anti-hero from the wrong side of the class divide, and became a bestselling classic of youthful rebellion.

60年代的塔尔萨城，城里的学生分属于南北两个帮派（Socs and Greasers）。南帮（Socs）的成员主要是住在城南的中产阶级学生，而住在贫民区的出身贫寒的学生则属于北帮（Greasers）。南北两帮的人都瞧对方不顺眼，双方积怨颇深，打架斗殴是家常便饭。波尼博伊（Ponyboy Curtis）是个孤儿，14岁，他和16岁的约翰尼（Johnnycade），还有比他们年龄稍大的达拉斯（Dallas，简称Dally）属于北帮Greasers。他们在社会边缘长大。这些少年不是在找架，他们正在寻找归属。 The Greasers and the rich-kid Socs are at war on the Tulsa streets. Ponyboy, 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.

苏珊·依·辛顿，美国青少年女作家，编剧。代表作有The Outsiders《局外人》，That Was When, This Is Now《此一时，彼一时》，Rumble Fish《斗鱼》等。 Susan Eloise Hinton (b. 1950) wrote her first book,The Outsiders, in 1967, when she was seventeen years old. Hinton is also the author of That Was When, This Is Now (1971), adapted into a film starring Emilio Estevez and Morgan Freeman;Rumble Fish (1975), also adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Mickey Rourke, Nicholas Cage and Dennis Hopper;Tex (1979);Taming the Star Runner (1988), and many others. Hinton lives in Oklahoma.

WHEN I STEPPED OUT into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. I was wishing I looked like Paul Newman—he looks tough and I don’t—but I guess my own looks aren’t so bad. I have lightbrown, almost-red hair and greenish-gray eyes. I wish they were more gray, because I hate most guys that have green eyes, but I have to be content with what I have. My hair is longer than a lot of boys wear theirs, squared off in back and long at the front and sides, but I am a greaser and most of my neighborhood rarely bothers to get a haircut. Besides, I look better with long hair. I had a long walk home and no company, but I usually lone it anyway, for no reason except that I like to watch movies undisturbed so I can get into them and live them with the actors. When I see a movie with someone it’s kind of uncomfortable, like having someone read your book over your shoulder. I’m different that way. I mean, my second-oldest brother, Soda, who is sixteen-going-on-seventeen, never cracks a book at all, and my oldest brother, Darrel, who we call Darry, works too long and hard to be interested in a story or drawing a picture, so I’m not like them. And nobody in our gang digs movies and books the way I do. For a while there, I thought I was the only person in the world that did. So I loned it. Soda tries to understand, at least, which is more than Darry does. But then, Soda is different from anybody; he understands everything, almost. Like he’s never hollering at me all the time the way Darry is, or treating me as if I was six instead of fourteen. I love Soda more than I’ve ever loved anyone, even Mom and Dad. He’s always happy-go-lucky and grinning, while Darry’s hard and firm and rarely grins at all. But then, Darry’s gone through a lot in his twenty years, grown up too fast. Sodapop’ll never grow up at all. I don’t know which way’s the best. I’ll find out one of these days. Anyway, I went on walking home, thinking about the movie, and then suddenly wishing I had some company. Greasers can’t walk alone too much or they’ll get jumped, or someone will come by and scream “Greaser!” at them, which doesn’t make you feel too hot, if you know what I mean. We get jumped by the Socs. I’m not sure how you spell it, but it’s the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, the West-side rich kids. It’s like the term “greaser,” which is used to class all us boys on the East Side.