Youth in Revolt

The hilarious take-no-prisoners novel about a cynical sex-obsessed teenager''s pining love for an intelligent girlthe 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 responseall while vying ardently for the affections of the beauteous Sheeni Saunders teenage goddess and ultimate intellectual goad.