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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
- A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace af Jeff Hobbs, 9781476731919
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
432
ISBN-13:
9781476731919
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1476731918
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
10 sep 2015
Størrelse i cm:
21,4 x 14,0 x 2,7
Oplagsdato:
10 sep 2015
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

- A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
Engelsk
Paperback 2015
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When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Robert Peace. Robert's life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, with his father in jail and his mother earning less than $15,000 a year. But Robert was a brilliant student, and it was supposed to get easier when he was accepted to Yale, where he studied molecular biochemistry and biophysics. But it didn't get easier. Robert carried with him the difficult dual nature of his existence, "fronting" in Yale, and at home. Through an honest rendering of Robert's relationships-with his struggling mother, with his incarcerated father, with his teachers and friends and fellow drug dealers-The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace encompasses the most enduring conflicts in America: race, class, drugs, community, imprisonment, education, family, friendship, and love. It's about the collision of two fiercely insular worlds-the ivy-covered campus of Yale University and Newark, New Jersey, and the difficulty of going from one to the other and then back again. It's about trying to live a decent life in America. But most all the story is about the tragic life of one singular brilliant young man. His end, a violent one, is heart-breaking and powerful and unforgettable.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
432
ISBN-13:
9781476731919
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1476731918
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
10 sep 2015
Størrelse i cm:
21,4 x 14,0 x 2,7
Oplagsdato:
10 sep 2015
Forfatter(e):
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