Twilight is a young-adult vampire-romance novel by author Stephenie Meyer. Twilight became an instant bestseller when published originally in hardback in 2005, debuting at #5 on the New York Times Best Seller list within a month of its release and later peaking at #1. The novel was also the biggest selling book of 2008 and, to date, has sold 17 million copies worldwide, spent over 91 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and been translated into 37 different languages.
Seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington and finds her life in danger when she falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen. The novel is followed by New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. A film adaptation of Twilight was released in 2008, grossing more than $382 million worldwide and an additional $157 million from North American DVD sales, as of July 2009.
Love it or hate it, the Twilight saga is a pop-culture phenomenon and, to be completely fair and honest, the first film had the virtue of novelty and pace, to say nothing of a good-looking cast, who performed competently in a wonderfully atmospheric setting.
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