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The Help |  | Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 464
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.4
ISBN: 0399155341
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780399155345
ASIN: 0399155341
Publication Date: February 10, 2009
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Product Description
Southern whites' guilt for not expressing gratitude to the black maids who raised them threatens to become a familiar refrain. But don't tell Kathryn Stockett because her first novel is a nuanced variation on the theme that strikes every note with authenticity. In a page-turner that brings new resonance to the moral issues involved, she spins a story of social awakening as seen from both sides of the American racial divide.
The murders of Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr. are seen through African American eyes, but go largely unobserved by the white community. Meanwhile, a room "full of cake-eating, Tab-drinking, cigarette-smoking women" pretentiously plan a fundraiser for the "Poor Starving Children of Africa." In general, Stockett doesn't sledgehammer her ironies, though she skirts caricature with a "white trash" woman who has married into an old Jackson family. Yet even this character is portrayed with the compassion and humor that keep the novel levitating above its serious theme.
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 Honest and touching July 29, 2010
Maureen (NJ United States)
I laughed and cried along with the characters. could not stop reading until the very last page. truly inspiring...thank you for sharing this story!
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ ! July 29, 2010
MISHAAL AHMED JAAFAR
I heard about this book on Amazon a while ago and a week ago i decided to read it so i got the kindle edition . The Help is got to be one of the best books i've ever read ! i loved it . it was such an amazing book . the writing is beautiful and amazing . The story is so inspiring and good . I loved everything about this books from the story to the writing and of course the characters . I enjoyed reading this book very much. i highly recommend it ! :D :)
Terrific period piece. July 29, 2010
Patch1077
A real page turner. The author authentically captures the race tensions in the South during the civil rights era.
Made me think about that time in my life July 28, 2010
E. LAMBERSON (Johns Island, SC United States)
I am really enjoying this book. I was in an all white high school at this time in Decatur, GA and this is how I remember the "colored" ladies talking (but more "aint" in their language than in the book). We never saw or knew any "colored" people except those who worked for our families as maids and yardmen. We loved them but did not understand the "line" we were not to cross. Most of us were totally ignorant and thought the colored people had their own place where we were not allowed to go! We wanted to sit in the back of the bus but it was reserved for the colored people. How ironic.........friends later told me the same thing, they thought we were not allowed in the balcony of the movies because it was reserved for the colored people. No one in our families ever talked about the plight of the black people. I actually had never met an educated black person until I started to work at in a hospital in 1970.
I thought it was both absorbing and interesting.
It is a book of fiction; so, dont get your dander up. Read something else if this one offends you.
The Help July 28, 2010
Maureen Galeone (LUTZ, FLORIDA, US)
I read this from theibrary and it is so good that I had to own my very own copy! It is a facinating story about what women do to other less fortunate women.
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