The hilarious, take-no-prisoners novel about a cynical, sex-obsessed
teenager's pining love for an intelligent girl--the basis for the major
motion picture starring Michael Cera.
Youth in Revolt is the journals of Nick Twisp, California's most
precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles to make sense out of high
school, deal with his divorced parents, and lose his virginity result in
his transformation from an unassuming fourteen-year-old to a modern
youth in open revolt. As his family splinters, worlds collide, and the
police block all routes out of town, Nick must cope with economic
deprivation, homelessness, the gulag of the public schools, a
competitive type-A father, murderous canines, and an inconvenient hair
trigger on his erectile response--all while vying ardently for the
affections of the beauteous Sheeni Saunders, teenage goddess, and
ultimate intellectual goad.