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About the Product About the Author Catherine Ryan Hyde is an American novelist and short story writer. Her books have become bestsellers not only in the United States and Great Britain, but all over the world, and her stories have received many awards and honorary titles. Genre Contemporary prose, sentimental novel. About the book The story of the boy Trevor McKinney, who came up with the idea of selflessly helping three strangers, was first published in 1999 and instantly captivated the hearts and minds of millions of readers around the world. She not only got embodied in the cinema — the book was filmed in 2000 with the participation of Hollywood actors Helen Hunt and Kevin Spacey — but also spawned a real social movement of mutual assistance to each other. Features This is the fifteenth anniversary edition for which Catherine Ryan Hyde has written a special foreword. In it, the author tells how the idea of “Pay another” came about, and discusses its phenomenon. Abstract Imagine that you are selflessly helping a person and ask him to thank three other people for you, who, in turn, will help three more. And so warmth and kindness will spread throughout the planet. How effective can such a seemingly simple idea be? Twelve-year-old Trevor decides to check it out and begins a chain of good deeds, hoping to change the world, even if at the cost of his own life.
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