Imaginary Friend starts with young David slipping out of bed on the second night of a full blue moon and into the Mission Street Woods. Twenty years later, he has reinvented the literary horror novel. It became a successful book and a popular film and was the quintessential novel of modern adolescence in which he reimagined the angst of teens. You won’t be able to stop.” Or, at least: “Do not read it at night.”Ĭhbosky published The Perks of Being a Wallflower in 1999. It might just as well begin with a warning to the reader: “Don’t start reading this book. Stephen Chbosky’s heart-pounding Imaginary Friend begins with a warning: “ Don’t leave the street.” The imperative is directed at 6-year-old David Olson, who disappeared from his small town of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania.
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