It's Kind of a Funny Story
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| It's Kind of a Funny Story | |
| Author | Ned Vizzini |
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| Illustrator | number seventeen, abigail smith |
| Genre(s) | Teen comedy |
| Publisher | Hyperion Paperbacks, Miramax Books(US) |
| Publication date | 2006 (hardcover), 2007 (paperback) |
It's Kind of a Funny Story is a teen novel by American author Ned Vizzini. Vizzini's second novel, it follows a depressed young man who becomes suicidal and checks himself into a mental hospital. The book was inspired by Vizzini's own brief hospitalization for depression in November 2004 (as described in the footnotes at the end of the novel).
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[edit] Plot
Read the book!
[edit] Movie release
An official movie has been slated for release sometime in 2008. Its movie rights have been sold to Paramount.
[edit] Trivia
- The front cover of the book is a reference to Craig's hobby of drawing maps. When he was four years old, he tried to trace Manhattan but failed. From then on, drawing maps became a hobby for him, and while at the psych ward he discovered how he could incorporate these maps into human forms. The book cover is a portrait of Craig himself.
- The novel is a finalist for the Abraham Lincoln Award of 2009.
