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The Help

Auteur : Stockett, Kathryn

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Zusatztext Praise for The Help   “The two principal maid characters...leap off the page in all their warm! three dimensional glory...[A] winning novel.”— The New York Times “This could be one of the most important pieces of fiction since To Kill a Mockingbird… If you read only one book...let this be it.”—NPR.org   “Wise! poignant...You’ll catch yourself cheering out loud.”— People   “Graceful and real! a compulsively readable story.”— Entertainment Weekly   “A beautiful portrait of a fragmenting world.”— The Atlanta Journal-Constitution   “The must-read choice of every book club in the country.”—The Huffington Post “At turns hilarious and heart-warming.”—Associated Press “In a page-turner that brings new resonance to the moral issues involved! Stockett spins a story of a social awakening as seen from both sides of the American racial divide.”— The Washington Post Informationen zum Autor Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and creative writing, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for sixteen years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. Klappentext The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film-a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't-nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She's full of ambition, but without a husband, she's considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town...Aibileen chapter 1 August 1962 Mae Mobley was born on a early Sunday morning in August 1960. A church baby we like to call it. Taking care a white babies, that's what I do, along with all the cooking and the cleaning. I done raised seventeen kids in my lifetime. I know how to get them babies to sleep, stop crying, and go in the toilet bowl before they mamas even get out a bed in the morning. But I ain't never seen a baby yell like Mae Mobley Leefolt. First day I walk in the door, there she be, red-hot and hollering with the colic, fighting that bottle like it's a rotten turnip. Miss Leefolt, she look terrified a her own child. "What am I doing wrong? Why can't I stop it?" It? That was my first hint: something is wrong with this situation. So I took that pink, screaming baby in my arms. Bounced her on my hip to get the gas moving and it didn't take two minutes fore Baby Girl stopped her crying, got to smiling up at me like she do. But Miss Leefolt, she don't pick up her own baby for the rest a the day. I seen plenty a womens get the baby blues after they done birthing. I reckon I thought that's what it was. Here's something about Miss Leefolt: she not just frowning all the time, she skinny. Her legs is so spindly, she look like she done growed em last week. Twenty-three years old and she lanky as a fourteen-year-old boy. Even her hair is thin, brown, see-through. She try to tease it up, but it only make it look thinner. Her face be the same shape as that red devil on the redhot candy box, pointy chin and all. Fact, her whole body be so full a sharp knobs and corners, it's no wonder she can't soothe that baby. Babies like fat. Like to bury they face up in you ar...

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Paru le : 03/05/2010

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Auteur(s) : Auteur : Stockett, Kathryn

Éditeur(s) : Berkley Publishing Group

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EAN13 : 9780425233986

Pages : 464

Hauteur: 172.0 cm / Largeur 107.0 cm


Épaisseur: 31.0 cm

Poids: 0 g