Author: JONATHAN KOZOL
Title: Amazing Grace
Description: Crown, 1995. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 286. "Amazing Grace is a book about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx - the poorest congressional district of our nation." "Without rhetoric, but drawing extensively upon the words of children, parents, and priests, this book does not romanticize or soften the effects of violence and sickness. One fourth of the child-bearing women in the neighborhoods where these children live test positive for HIV. Pediatric AIDS, life-consuming fires, and gang rivalries take a high toll. Several children die during the year in which this narrative takes place." "Although it is a gently written work, Amazing Grace makes clear that the postmodern ghetto of America is not a social accident but is created and sustained by greed, neglect, racism, and expedience. It asks us questions that are, at once, political and theological. What is the value of a child's life? What exactly do we plan to do with those whom we appear to have defined as economically and humanly superfluous? How tough do we dare to be?"-BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ISBN: 9780517799994. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Title: Amazing Grace
Description: Crown, 1995. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 286. "Amazing Grace is a book about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx - the poorest congressional district of our nation." "Without rhetoric, but drawing extensively upon the words of children, parents, and priests, this book does not romanticize or soften the effects of violence and sickness. One fourth of the child-bearing women in the neighborhoods where these children live test positive for HIV. Pediatric AIDS, life-consuming fires, and gang rivalries take a high toll. Several children die during the year in which this narrative takes place." "Although it is a gently written work, Amazing Grace makes clear that the postmodern ghetto of America is not a social accident but is created and sustained by greed, neglect, racism, and expedience. It asks us questions that are, at once, political and theological. What is the value of a child's life? What exactly do we plan to do with those whom we appear to have defined as economically and humanly superfluous? How tough do we dare to be?"-BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ISBN: 9780517799994. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780517799994
Price: EUR 10.00 = appr. US$ 10.87 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2076013
- Book number: 2076013
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