About the book: 1962 / Which school would be pleased to get a newcomer like Zhenya Perchikhin? At a parent-teacher meeting, one mother bluntly said: “You can’t have such a negativist in the class.” The guys got wind of this, and it went - Zhenya the Negativist. The word is clear. Many guys are interested in photography. Black on the negative turns out to be white, and white turns out to be black. Do you want it to be even clearer? Zhenya is not just Zhenya, but Zhenya-On the contrary. Zhenya’s house is not at all smooth. As soon as it gets full in the Perchikhins’ apartment, things seem to scatter in all directions, as Nadezhda Andreevna, my mother, assures. Zhenya. When he, her obnoxious son, goes to bed, the ottoman turns into a den. Not to bed, but rather to the lair, to the den of a wild beast. The blanket stands on end. Who is life on end! The story shows only one month from the life of the eighth “B” and the decorous Perchikhin family. Just one month! But even during this period a lot can happen. Still, what? You have to read the story from the first to the last page - you can’t tell it briefly…