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The Help

The Help( )
Author: Stockett, Kathryn
ISBN:978-0-241-95080-7
Publication Date:Aug 2010
Publisher:Penguin Books, Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $24.95
Book Description:

The book that has taken the US and UK by storm. Enter a vanished and unjust world- Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver... There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared....
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Book Details
Pages:464
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Southern
Fiction / African American & Black / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.3 x 19.8 x 2.9 cm
Book Weight:0.326 Kilograms
Author Biography
Stockett, Kathryn (Author)


Kathryn Stockett was born in 1969 in Mississippi. She graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing. She soon got a job in magazine marketing and publishing in New York City. She became famous in 2009 with her debut novel, The Help. Her book tells the story of African-American Maids working in white households in Jackson Mississippi during the 1960's. It sold over ten million copies and spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List.

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