Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope

by Kozol, Jonathan
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Jonathan Kozol's books have become touchstones of the American conscience. In Ordinary Resurrections, he spends four years in the South Bronx with children who have become his friends at a badly underfunded but enlightened public school. A fascinating narrative of daily urban life, Ordinary Resurrections gives a human face to poverty and racial isolation, and provides a stirring testimony to the courage and resilience of the young. Sometimes playful, sometimes jubilantly funny, and sometimes profoundly sad, these are sensitive children--complex and morally insightful--and their ethical vitality denounces and subverts the racially charged labels that the world of grown-up expertise too frequently assigns to them.
Yet another classic case of unblinking social observation from one of the finest writers ever to work in the genre, this is a piercing discernment of right and wrong, of hope and despair--from our nation's corridors of power to its poorest city streets.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Kozol, Jonathan
  • ISBN: 9780770435677
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.02 x 0.91
  • Number Of Pages: 397
  • Publication Year: 2012

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