Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Kozol, Jonathan; Jonathan Kozol
Language: English
Published by Perennial/An Imprint of HarperCollins, Publishers, Inc., New York, 1996
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284 pp. Nearly flawless copy with clean, crisp pages and light foxing on page edges, not affecting text. Solid binding.
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- Title
- Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
- Author
- Kozol, Jonathan; Jonathan Kozol
- Publisher
- Perennial/An Imprint of HarperCollins, Publishers, Inc., New York
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060976977
- ISBN 13
- 9780060976972
- Illustrator
- Lauren Dong (Book Design & Cover Design); Harvey Wang (Cover Photo)
- Edition
- 1st HaerperPerennial Edition Published i
- Dimensions
- 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Literary Studies, Literary Theory & Lit. Criticsm, Social Studies & Sciences, Sociology, Social Work, US Politics & History, Amer. Presidency
The 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.
A gently written work, Amazing Grace asks 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 cold -- how cruel, how tough -- do we dare be?
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