The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
- ISBN-10
- 1476731918
- ISBN-13
- 9781476731919
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 406
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-07-28
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Jeff Hobbs
Description
Traces a young man's effort to escape the dangers of the streets and his own nature after graduating from Yale, describing his youth in violent 1980s Newark, efforts to navigate two fiercely insular worlds and life-ending drug deals. 75,000 first printing.
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- 2014-09-23
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