Hazel is forced by her parents to attend a support group where she subsequently meets and falls in love with 17-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player, amputee, and survivor of osteosarcoma.Īn American feature film adaptation of the same name as the novel directed by Josh Boone and starring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, and Nat Wolff was released on June 6, 2014. The title is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: 'Men at some time were masters of their fates, / The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.' The story is narrated by Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old girl with thyroid cancer that has affected her lungs.

It is his fourth solo novel, and sixth novel overall. The Fault in Our Stars is a novel by John Green. The Fault in Our Stars proves that the hype surrounding Green is not overblown.” - NPR “A pitch-perfect, elegiac comedy…it will linger long and hard in the minds of teens and former teens.” - USA TODAY ★“An achingly beautiful story.” - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED REVIEW “John Green deftly mixes the profound and the quotidian in this tough, touching valentine to the human spirit.Print ( hardcover, paperback), audiobook, ebook

Green’s book is also a good example of why so many adult readers are turning to young-adult literature for the pleasures and consolations they used to get from conventional literary fiction.” - TIME “Green writes books for young adults, but his voice is so compulsively readable that it defies categorization. Green shows us true love…and it is far more romantic than any sunset on the beach.” - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “One doesn’t like to throw around phrases like “instant classic” lightly, but I can see The Fault in Our Stars taking its place alongside Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret in the young-adult canon. Reviews ★ “In its every aspect, The Fault in Our Stars is a triumph.” - BOOKLIST, STARRED REVIEW “Luminous.” - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY ★ “A smartly crafted intellectual explosion of a romance.” - KIRKUS, STARRRED REVIEW ★ “A blend of melancholy, sweet, philosophical, and funny.

The fault in our stars by john green