Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White - Softcover

Staples, Brent

 
9780380724758: Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0380724758 ISBN 13: 9780380724758
Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

In this evocative memoir, Brent Staples poses some compelling questions: Where does the family end the self begin? What do we owe our families and what do we owe ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle?

As the oldest son among nine children, Brent grew up in a small industrial town near Philadelphia. Scholarship opportunities pulled him out of the black world where he had grown up into a world largely defined by whites. Meanwhile, as the industries that supported his hometown failed, and drug dealing rushed in to fill the economic void, news of arrests and premature deaths among Brent's childhood friends underscored his precarious perch in a mostly white environment. The death of his younger brother -- a cocaine dealer murdered by one of his "clients" -- propelled Brent into a reconsideration of his childhood that offers vivid portraits of family values that supported, pressures that tore apart, and the appeal and pain of living as an adult in a world that was literally and figuratively miles away from the one he knew as a child.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Brent Staples received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Chicago. Currently a member of the editorial board of the New York Times, he has been an assistant metropolitan editor of the Times, an editor of the New York Times Book Review, and a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times.

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Verlag
Harper Perennial
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0380724758
ISBN 13 
9780380724758
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Anzahl der Seiten
288
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