Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope
- ISBN-10
- 0060956453
- ISBN-13
- 9780060956455
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-02-20
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Author
- Jonathan Kozol
Description
Jonathan Kozol's books have become touchstones of the American conscience. In his most personal and optimistic book to date, Jonathan returns to the South Bronx to spend another four years with the children who have come to be his friends at P.S. 30 and St. Ann's. A fascinating narrative of daily urban life seem through the eyes of children, Ordinary Resurrections gives the human face to Northern segregation and provides a stirring testimony to the courage and resilience of the young. Yet another classic of unblinking social observation from one of the finest writers ever to work in the genre, Ordinary Resurrections is a piercing discernment of right and wrong, of hope and despair -- from our nations's corridors of power to its poorest city streets.
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