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On the March/April 2014 issue of Bookmarks, the book received (4.0 out of 5) stars, with the critical summary saying, "Although Ward provides no answers to the dilemmas she discusses, Men We Reaped is an important, eye-opening memoir about being black and male in America, as well as the women who are left behind." [5] [6] [7]
1 Plot summary. 2 Reception. 3 Book awards. ... My Own Two Feet: A Memoir (1995) ... Publishers Weekly Best Book Winner; References
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates is a 2010 nonfiction book by Wes Moore, the current governor of Maryland. Published by Spiegel & Grau, it describes two men of the same name who had very different life histories. Tavis Smiley wrote the afterword. [1] The author states, "The other Wes Moore is a drug dealer, a robber, a murderer.
In his new memoir, “Sonny Boy,” he calls his little crew “a pack of wild, pubescent wolves with sly smiles,” and describes how his three best friends, Cliffy, Bruce and Petey, eventually ...
Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées (Letters of Two Brides) is an epistolary novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac.It was serialized in the French newspaper La Presse in 1841 and published by Furne in 1842 as the first work in the second volume (Scènes de la vie privée, tome II or Scenes from Private Life, Volume 2) of Balzac's La Comédie humaine. [1]
Open: An Autobiography. In 1992, at 22 years old, Agassi won the first of his eight Grand Slams. At the 1996 Olympics, he won the gold medal. In 1999, he was number one in tennis.
Two men converse with each other while in Detox at Seattle General Hospital. The two men are the narrator and his roommate, Bill. Both characters mention different types of drugs such as alcohol, cigarettes, and most importantly Haldol. Haloperidol is an antipsychotic drug, therefore we understand that the character is struggling with addiction ...
The book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984. [4] The New York Times describes the book as a "gripping account of the events, social pressures and individual psychological responses that led his brother Robert to prison for murder and him [the author] to a middle-class life as a professor of English", as well as "a sensitive and intimate portrayal of the lives and ...