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- Objectstaat
- Book Title
- The Short And Tragic Life Of Robert Peace
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9781476731902
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace : a Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 20.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young African-American man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
147673190x
ISBN-13
9781476731902
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038378081
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace : a Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E185.97.P38h63 2014
Reviews
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., 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., [An] ambitious and darkly contemporary first novel... You don't need to draw the parallels with The Great Gatsby 's rootless socialites to hear the slither of snakes in the grass., 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., 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., Hobbs...captures the restlessness and ridiculousness of the sushi set's adult-onset angst with note-perfect acuity and a wry sense of humor., 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?, 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., 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., 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., [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., 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., An impressive debut in which keen insights are often strewn amid the narrative like shiny pennies on a dirty sidewalk., 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., 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 Tourists sketches, with a light touch, characters who are almost chillingly familiar - They'll either make readers smile or bring back awful memories of the people they learned to put up with in college. Part of what's catching reviewers' eyes is a narrator who in the wrong hands would have been flat or dull but whose plight makes the book irresistible after the first few pages... [he] is appealingly quiet, reserved and observant., 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., Compelling... with novelistic detail and deep insight, Hobbs 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., 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., Superb... so carefully constructed that, from the first, the sense of impending tragedy is gripping, and then finally devastating.... The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace is a grave, important book. The death of a young black don of a single mother and an imprisoned father is a subject to which many Americans bring charged preconceptions. Hobbs knows this and he overcomes them--he deepens the crucial national conversation... [he] loved Peace, and so will you., 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., 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., 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., 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 clich of amazing potential squandered., 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.
Copyright Date
2014
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, General, Higher, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Lccn
2014-001213
Dewey Decimal
974.9/044092 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Education, Social Science
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