The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma - Rilegato

Kotlowitz, Alex

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ISBN 10: 0385477201 ISBN 13: 9780385477208

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 1998

Riassunto

The author of the acclaimed best-seller There Are No Children Here explores America's racial antagonisms through the story of two Michigan towns--one white and wealthy, the other black and poor--and a black boy's death and its repercussions. Tour.

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"I was impressed and enthralled...This book has suspense and style, and the delight of real substance presented with grace...a work of great narrative power, superb reporting, and profound empathy--in other words, a joy."--Scott Turow

"A riveting portrait of a racially troubled America in the 1990's"--Publishers Weekly (starred)

"A vivid American microcosm, a telling tableau of the way we are."--The New York Times

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tz's There Are No Children Here was more than a bestseller; it was a national event. His beautifully narrated, heartbreaking nonfiction account of two black boys struggling to grow up in a Chicago public housing complex spent eight weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, was a made-for-television movie starring and produced by Oprah Winfrey, won many distinguished awards, and sparked a continuing national debate on the lives of inner-city children.
In The Other Side of the River, his eagerly awaited new book, Kotlowitz takes us to southern Michigan. Here, separated by the St. Joseph River, are two towns, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor. Geographically close, they are worlds apart, a living metaphor for America's racial divisions: St. Joseph is a prosperous lakeshore community and ninety-five percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and ninety-two percent black. When the body of a black teenaged boy from Benton Harbor is foun

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0385477201
• ISBN 13: 9780385477208
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 317