The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma - Softcover

Kotlowitz, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 038547721X ISBN 13: 9780385477215

Verlag: Anchor, 1999

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Book by Kotlowitz Alex

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"I was impressed and enthralled...This book has suspense and style, and the delight of real substance presented with grace...a work of great narrative power, superb reporting, and profound empathy--in other words, a joy." --Scott Turow

"A riveting portrait of a racially troubled America in the 1990's." --Publishers Weekly (starred)

"A vivid American microcosm, a telling tableau of the way we are." --The New York Times

Reseña del editor:

Bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz is one of this country's foremost writers on the ever explosive issue of race. In this gripping and ultimately profound book, Kotlowitz takes us to two towns in southern Michigan, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, separated by the St. Joseph River. Geographically close, but worlds apart, they are a living metaphor for America's racial divisions: St. Joseph is a prosperous lakeshore community and ninety-five percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and ninety-two percent black. When the body of a black teenaged boy from Benton Harbor is found in the river, unhealed wounds and suspicions between the two towns' populations surface as well. The investigation into the young man's death becomes, inevitably, a screen on which each town projects their resentments and fears. The Other Side of the River sensitively portrays the lives and hopes of the towns' citizens as they wrestle with this mystery--and reveals the attitudes and misperceptions that undermine race relations throughout America.

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• Verlag: Anchor
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 038547721X
• ISBN 13: 9780385477215
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336