It's Kind of a Funny Story

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Infobox Book
name = It's Kind of a Funny Story
author = Ned Vizzini
genre = Teen novel, comedy
publisher = Hyperion Paperbacks, Miramax Books (US)
release_date = 2006 (hardcover), 2007 (paperback)

"It's Kind of a Funny Story" is a novel by American author Ned Vizzini. It follows a depressed young man who becomes suicidal and checks himself into a psychiatric hospital. The book was inspired by Vizzini's own brief hospitalization for depression in November 2004, as described in the book's endnotes. It is a nominee for the 2009 Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award.

Film

An official movie has been slated for release sometime in 2008. The rights have been sold to Paramount Pictures.

External links

* [http://www.nedvizzini.com The author's homepage]


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