The Chocolate War

Version: Unabridged
Author: Robert Cormier
Narrator: Frank Muller
Genres: Juvenile and Children's, Educational
Publisher: Listening Library, Inc.
Date: May 2007
Length: 5 hours, 38 minutes
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Overview

IN 1974, AFTER SUFFERING rejections from seven major publishers, "The Chocolate War" made its debut. An uncompromising portrait of conformity and corruption, it quickly became a bestselling— and provocative— classic for young adults.

Author Details

Author Details

Cormier, Robert

ROBERT CORMIER
1925-2000
Robert Cormier (pronounced kor-MEER) lived all his life in Leominster, Massachusetts, a small town in the north-central part of the state, where he grew up as part of a close, warm community of French Canadian immigrants. His wife, Connie, also from Leominster, still lives in the house where they raised their three daughters and one son-all adults now. They never saw a reason to leave. "There are lots of untold stories right here on Main Street," Cormier once said.
A newspaper reporter and columnist for 30 years (working for the "Worcester Telegram "and "Gaz