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La vie courte et tragique de Robert Peace : un jeune homme brillant qui a quitté Newark
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- ISBN
- 1476731918
- EAN
- 9781476731919
- Binding
- TP
- Book Title
- The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brill
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Education, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace : a Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Subject
- Cultural Heritage, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, General, Higher, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Item Weight
- 12.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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An instant New York Times bestseller, named a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review , Amazon, and Entertainment Weekly, among others, this celebrated account of a young African-American man who escaped Newark, NJ, to attend Yale, but still faced the dangers of the streets when he returned is, "nuanced and shattering" ( People ) and "mesmeric" ( The New York Times Book Review ). 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, trying to fit in at Yale, and at home on breaks. A compelling and honest portrait of Robert's relationships--with his struggling mother, with his incarcerated father, with his teachers and friends-- 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 the slums of 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 this "fresh, compelling" ( The Washington Post ) story is about the tragic life of one singular brilliant young man. His end, a violent one, is heartbreaking and powerful and "a haunting American tragedy for our times" ( Entertainment Weekly ).
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1476731918
ISBN-13
9781476731919
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204217235
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace : a Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
Publication Year
2015
Subject
Cultural Heritage, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, General, Higher, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Education, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-001213
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
[An] intimate biography... Hobbs uses [Peace's] journey as an opportunity to discuss race and class, but he doesn't let such issues crowd out a sense of his friend's individuality...By the end, the reader, like the author, desperately wishes that Peace could have had more time., Mr. Hobbs chronicles Peace's brief 30 years on earth with descriptive detail and penetrating prose... He paints a picture of a young man who was complex, like most of us, and depicted both his faults and admirable qualities equally. It is up to the reader to decide if Peace was an Ivy League grad caught up in a life of crime or just a victim of circumstances... Mr. Hobbs' empathetic narrative gives readers an opportunity to view his life beyond a stereotype., If The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace were a novel, it would be a moral fable for our times; as nonfiction, it is one of the saddest and most devastating books I've ever read, a tour-de-force of compassion and insight, an exquisite elegy for a person, for a time of life, for a valid hope that nonetheless failed. It is also a profound reflection on a society that professes to value social mobility, but that often does not or cannot imbue privilege with justice. It is written with clarity, precision, and tenderness, without judgment, with immense kindness, and with a quiet poetry. Few books transform us, but this one has changed me forever., With novelistic detail and deep insight, Hobbs... registers the disadvantages his friend faced while avoiding hackneyed fatalism and sociology... reveals a man whose singular experience and charisma made him simultaneously an outsider and a leader in both New Hampshire and Newark... This is a classic tragedy of a man who, with the best intentions, chooses an ineluctable path to disaster., A haunting work of nonfiction.... Mr. Hobbs writes in a forthright but not florid way about a heartbreaking story., It is hard to imagine a writer with no personal connection to Peace being able to generate as much emotional traction in this narrative as Hobbs does, to care as much about portraying fully the depth and intricacy of Peace's life, his friends and the context of it all... it is an enormous writing feat.. fresh, compelling., Ambitious, moving...Hobbs combines memoir, sociological analysis and urban narrative elements, producing a perceptive page-turner... An urgent report on the state of American aspirations and a haunting dispatch from forsaken streets., Devastating. It is a testament to Hobbs's talents that Peace's murder still shocks and stings even though we are clued into his fate from the outset....a first-rate book. [Hobbs] has a tremendous ability to empathize with all of his characters without romanticizing any of them., Can a man transcend the circumstances into which he's born? Can he embody two wildly divergent souls? To what degree are all of us, more or less, slaves to our environments? Few lives put such questions into starker relief than that of one Robert DeShaun Peace... As Hobbs reveals in tremendously moving and painstaking detail, [Peace] may have never had a chance., The resulting portrait of Peace is nuance, contradictory, elusive, and probing... At its core, the story compels readers to question how much one can really know about another person... VERDICT: An intelligent, provocative book, recommended for any biography lover., Many institutions that provide bridges to realization of The American Dream conflate the aspirant's yearning to participate fully with a desire to leave everything behind. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace reveals the devastating consequences of this assumption. There are few road maps for students who carry our much-valued diversity, and few tools for those who remain ignorant of the diverse riches in their midst. Jeff Hobbs has made an important contribution to the literature for all of us. He shows what high quality journalism can aspire to in its own yearning for justice-the urgency of taking a full and accurate account of irreplaceable loss, so we don't keep making the same mistakes over and over again., A poignant and powerful can't-put-it-down book about friendship and loss. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace takes you on a nail-biting, heartbreaking journey that will leave you moved, shaken, and ultimately changed. In this spectacularly written first work of non-fiction, Jeff Hobbs creates a singular and searing portrait of an unforgettable life., Jeff Hobbs has written a mesmerizingly beautiful book, a mournful, yet joyous celebration of his friend Robert Peace, this full-throated, loving, complicated man whose journey feels simultaneously heroic and tragic. This book is an absolute triumph-of empathy and of storytelling. Hobbs has accomplished something extraordinary: he's made me feel like Peace was a part of my life, as well. Trust me on this, Peace is someone you need to get to know. He'll leave you smiling. His story will leave you shaken., Mesmeric... [Hobbs] asks the consummate American question: Is it possible to reinvent yourself, to sculpture your own destiny'... That one man can contain such contradictions makes for an astonishing,tragic story. In Hobbs's hands, though, it becomes something more: an interrogation of our national creed of self-invention.... [The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace] deserves a turn in the nation's pulpit from which it can beg us to see the third world America in our midst., The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace is a powerful book meant to haunt us with the question that plagued everyone who knew Peace. Hobbs has the courage not to counterfeit an answer leaving us with the haunting question: Why?, One part biography and one part study of poverty in the United States, Hobbs's account of his friend's life and death highlights how our pasts shape us, and how our eternal search for a place of safety and belonging can prove to be dangerous. Peace's life was indeed short and tragic, but Hobbs aims to guarantee that it will not go unmarked., The Short Tragic Life of Robert Peace is a book that is as much about class as it is race. Peace traveled across America's widening social divide, and Hobbs' book is an honest, insightful and empathetic account of his sometimes painful, always strange journey., Peace navigated the clashing cultures of urban poverty and Ivy League privilege, never quite finding a place where his particular brand of nerdiness and cool could coexist... [Hobbs] set out to offer a full picture of a very complicated individual. Writing with the intimacy of a close friend, Hobbs slowly reveals Peace as far more than a cliché of amazing potential squandered., The Short and Tragic Life [of Robert Peace] tackles some important topics: the swamp of poverty; the tantalizing hope of education; the question of whether anyone can truly invent a life or whether fate is, in fact, dictated by birth...[Its] account of worlds colliding will leave nagging questions for many readers which might be all to the good.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
974.9/044092 B
Lc Classification Number
E185.97.P38h63 2014
Copyright Date
2014
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