Sounder - Brossura

Armstrong, William H.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060935480 ISBN 13: 9780060935481

Casa editrice: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001

Riassunto

Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young African-American boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and enjoying the companionship of his devoted dog Sounder.

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L'autore:

William H. Armstrong grew up in Lexington, Virginia. He graduated from Hampden-Sydney College and did graduate work at the University of Virginia. He taught ancient history and study techniques at the Kent School for fifty-two years. Author of more than a dozen books for adults and children, he won the John Newbery Medal for Sounder in 1970 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Hampden-Sydney College in 1986.

Product Description:

Set in the deep South, this is a tale about the courage and love that bind a black sharecropping family together despite extreme prejudice and inhumanity from the outside world. Sounder cannot save his master - a father who is driven to steal for his hungry wife and children - from the sheriff's posse. Nor can he save him from fate, which pursues both master and dog, mauling each of them in it's cruel, impersonal jaws, while the boy who loves the two of them is forced to bear his sorrow like a man. The story burns with indignation. It climbs to moments of nobility and resignation that return, in memory, like a final benediction.

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• Editore: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0060935480
• ISBN 13: 9780060935481
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 96