The Fault in Our Stars
Hazel Grace Lancaster is a sixteen-year-old with thyroid cancer that has already metastasized to her lungs and been reluctantly kept at bay by an experimental drug. Forced by her mother into a church-basement support group for cancer kids, she meets Augustus Waters, a charming one-legged survivor of osteosarcoma who talks like he has read too many books and watched too many movies, and who is immediately, terrifyingly interested in her. Bonding over a half-finished novel Hazel is obsessed with, the two manage an unlikely trip to Amsterdam to ambush its reclusive author, a journey that will remake and break them both. John Green's 2012 novel is a wry, tender love story about two teenagers trying to live a whole life inside a limited one.
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Sixteen-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster has terminal thyroid cancer kept in check by an experimental drug. At a support group in a church basement she meets Augustus Waters, a former basketball player with one leg, and falls hard.
Yes. A 2014 film adaptation directed by Josh Boone and starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort was released. The film follows the novel closely and was a major commercial success.
John Green has said the novel was inspired by Esther Earl, a young cancer patient who became his friend. The events and characters are fictional, but the emotional core draws on Green's friendship with Earl. He dedicated the book to her.
The Fault in Our Stars was written by John Green, published in 2012 by Dutton Books.
The Fault in Our Stars is 318 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Fault in Our Stars takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
The Fault in Our Stars is a standalone novel by John Green, not part of a series.
The Fault in Our Stars is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.