The Fault in Our Stars is the sixth novel by author John Green, published in January 2012. The
story is narrated by a sixteen-year-oldcancer patient named Hazel Grace Lancaster,
who is forced by her parents to attend a support group,
where she subsequently meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old
Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player
and amputee.
The title is inspired from Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says
to Brutus: "The fault,
dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are
underlings."
A feature film adaptation of the novel directed by Josh Boone and starring Shailene
Woodley, Ansel Elgort and Nat Wolff was released on June 6, 2014.
Green stated that the first inspiration for The Fault
in Our Stars came from when he worked as a student chaplain at a children's
hospital. He found the children to be as human as healthy people, and wanted to
capture the feeling that "the stories that I was reading sort of
oversimplified and sometimes even dehumanized them.
The Fault in
Our Stars has received positive reviews from critics. The
New York Times' review of the book called it "a blend of
melancholy, sweet, philosophical and funny" and said that it "stays
the course of tragic realism", while noting that the book's unpleasant
plot details "do nothing to diminish the romance; in Green’s hands, they
only make it more moving."
Entertainment
Weekly wrote, "[Augustus and Hazel's] love story is as real as it is
doomed, and the gut-busting laughs that come early in the novel make the
luminous final pages all the more heartbreaking", and gave the novel an
overall A− grade.
Popularity :
#1 New York Times bestseller
#1 Wall Street Journal bestseller
#9 The Bookseller (UK) bestseller
#1 Indiebound bestseller
New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
Starred reviews from Booklist, SLJ, Publisher’s Weekly, Horn Book, and Kirkus
#1 Wall Street Journal bestseller
#9 The Bookseller (UK) bestseller
#1 Indiebound bestseller
New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
Starred reviews from Booklist, SLJ, Publisher’s Weekly, Horn Book, and Kirkus
About
the Author :
John Michael Green (born August 24,
1977) is an American author of young adult fiction, YouTube video blogger
(vlogger) and creator of online educational videos. He won the 2006 Printz Award
for his debut novel, Looking for Alaska, published by Dutton Children's Books
in 2005, is a school story and teen romance inspired by his experiences at
Indian Springs, fictionalized as Culver Creek Preparatory High School, and his
most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars debuted at number 1 on The New York
Times Best Seller list in January 2012.The 2014 film adaptation opened at #1 at
the box office. In 2014 Green was included in Time magazine's list of the 100
most influential people in the world.
Aside
from being a novelist, Green is also well known for his YouTube ventures. In
2007 he launched the VlogBrothers channel, which he runs with his brother, Hank
Green. Since then Green has launched events such as Project for Awesome and
VidCon and created a total of 11 online series, along with his brother, such as
Crash Course, an educational channel teaching literature, history, and science.
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