| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780767901260 | | Publisher: Broadway Books | | Publish Date: 6/1/1999 | | Buy.com Sku: 30388023 | | Item#: RMF4X2 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8H x 5.75L x 0.75T |
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| | | At Ballou Senior High, a crime-infested school in Washington, D.C., honor students have learned to keep their heads down. Like most inner-city kids, they know that any special attention in a place this dangerous can make you a target of violence. But Cedric Jennings will not swallow his pride, and with unwavering support from his mother, he studies and strives as if his life depends on it--and it does. The summer after his junior year, at a program for minorities at MIT, he gets a fleeting glimpse of life outside, a glimpse that turns into a face-on challenge one year later: acceptance into Brown University, an Ivy League school.
At Brown, finding himself far behind most of the other freshmen, Cedric must manage a bewildering array of intellectual and social challenges. Cedric had hoped that at college he would finally find a place to fit in, but he discovers he has little in common with either the white students, many of whom come from privileged backgrounds, or the middle-class blacks. Having traveled too far to turn back, Cedric is left to rely on his faith, his intelligence, and his determination to keep alive his hope in the unseen--a future of acceptance and reward that he struggles, each day, to envision.
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A Wall Street Journal reporter follows a young man from Washington D.C.'s inner-city through his first year at Brown University, where much growth and change takes place. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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"This engaging success story leaves behind a troubling aftertaste of personal and social wounds that appear to have been too artfully healed." 04/15/1998San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"Cedric's story is almost always compelling, and it's punctuated with some priceless scenes." 06/14/1998 Washington Post Book World
"A tremendous, empathetic leap...a story of sheer human grit that should be read by others as example and inspiration." - Jonathan Yardley Chicago Tribune Books
"What distinguishes it from the poverty-lit pack...is the emotional richness of Cedric's struggle and the extraordinary depth of Susskind's telling of it...exquisite." Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.)
"A sweeping book, so powerful it can move a relatively jaded reviewer to tears. It is inspiring enough to justify hope." National Public Radio
"Absolutely gripping. A sort of suspense novel of the human psyche...it's beyond good, it's really extraordinary." |
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