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Loading... The Help (Movie Tie-In) (original 2009; edition 2011)by Kathryn Stockett
Work InformationThe Help by Kathryn Stockett (Author) (2009)
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Fantastic book! It's hard to believe that people can be so small-minded as to judge each other based on skin color. ( ) Absolutely riveting; I read it in two days. Stockett has a remarkable gift for storytelling, and does a wonderful job of smoothly transitioning the narrative between the voices of the three main characters. A beautiful tale: heartbreaking but uplifting, poignant but hilarious, incredible (in the true sense of the word) and yet so full of truth. This is the best book I have read in years. Highly recommend!
This is fun stuff, well-written and often applause-worthy. My only problem with The Help is that, in the end, it’s not really about the help. I finished The Help in one sitting and enjoyed it very, very much. It’s wise, literate, and ultimately deeply moving, a careful, heartbreaking novel of race and family that digs a lot deeper than most novels on such subjects do. As black-white race relations go, this could be one of the most important pieces of fiction since To Kill a Mockingbird... If you read only one book this summer, let this be it. “Mississippi is like my mother,” [Stockett] writes in an afterword to “The Help.” And you will see, after your wrestling match with this problematic but ultimately winning novel, that when it comes to the love-hate familial bond between Ms. Stockett and her subject matter, she’s telling the truth. Her pitch-perfect depiction of a country's gradual path toward integration will pull readers into a compelling story that doubles as a portrait of a country struggling with racial issues. Has the adaptationIs abridged inHas as a reference guide/companionHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another. No library descriptions found. |
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