# The Wild Things

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- Book: [The Wild Things](https://www.bookquiver.com/dave-eggers/the-wild-things) ([The Wild Things.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dave-eggers/the-wild-things.md))
- Authors: [Dave Eggers](https://www.bookquiver.com/dave-eggers)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4194-638-2
- Published: 2011-12-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Seven-year-old Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet, and howl like a wolf. In any other era, he would be considered a boy. In 2007, he is considered wilful and deranged. His home life is problematic. His parents are divorced; his father, immature and romantic, lives in the city. His mother has taken up with a younger man who steals quarters from the change bowl in the foyer. Driven by a series of pressures internal and external, Max leaves home, jumps in a boat and sails across the ocean to a strange island where giant beasts reign - the Wild Things from Maurice Sendak's visionary classic. This is an all-ages adventure, full of wit and soul, that explores the chaos of youth while Max explores the chaos of the world around him.