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| Author | Daniel Handler |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction, Satire, Black Comedy |
| Publisher | Thomas Dunne Books |
Publication date | April 1999 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 329 (1st edition) |
| ISBN | 0-312-19833-7 (1st edition) |
| OCLC | 39756403 |
The Basic Eight is the debut novel by author Daniel Handler, published in 1999. The book is a version of the diary of high-schooler Flannery Culp. It contains a number of sarcastic plot devices that ridicule high school English classes, standardized testing, satanic panic and talk-show analysts. The book is a classic example of an unreliable narrator. Consistent with Handler's farcical treatment of high school English, he includes vocabulary words and study questions at the end of some of Culp's diary entries.