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The Help
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Item Description...
Overview
Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.
Publishers Description
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, AibileenA's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobodyA's business, but she canA't mind her tongue, so sheA's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way womenA-mothers, daughters, caregivers, friendsA-view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we donA't. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 451
Dimensions: Length: 1.5" Width: 6.5" Height: 9.5"
Weight: 1.5 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
ISBN 0399155341
EAN 9780399155345
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Availability 100 units.
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 | loved it! Feb 8, 2010 |
| I loved this book and found it impossible to put down . Such real people with raw emotion . Sad to see it end. It really opened my eyes to a world I didnt know anything about. | | | | Best Read in a Long Time! Feb 8, 2010 |
| This was one I could not put down but didn't want it to end. It was beautifully written. I highly recommend this one. | | |  | The Help Feb 8, 2010 |
| I thought the book was written very well. It had excellent character development and the story line was well thought out. This book reminded me of Same Kind of Different as Me and quite a few of other popular books and movies that have recently appeared on race relations in the South. | | |  | Crisp insight into a significant period in our nation's maturation Feb 8, 2010 |
I purchased this book for my wife (she requested it). She thoroughly enjoyed the well-written account of a period with which we were only generally familiar (having lived in the west). The personalization of the characters provides a particularly meaningful perspective of a time and place in our nation's history where we as citizens and the nation as an institution make an effort toward real maturity, as to its entirety of populous while recognizing the injustice that remained a culturally embedded impediment to genuine civility. | | | | the help Feb 8, 2010 |
really glad i read this
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