The Kid |
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Author:
| Sapphire, |
ISBN: | 978-0-241-14529-6 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2011 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books, Limited
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Imprint: | Hamish Hamilton |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF PUSH, SAPPHIRE GIVES VOICE TO ABDUL JONES, THE SON OF HER UNFORGETTABLE HEROINE, PRECIOUS. The Kidis an electrifying story of body and spirit that takes us deep into the interior life of Abdul. We meet him at age nine, on the day of his mother's funeral. Left alone to navigate in a world where the edges of love and hate often bleed into one another with horrifying consequences, and forced to confront unspeakable...
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FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF PUSH, SAPPHIRE GIVES VOICE TO ABDUL JONES, THE SON OF HER UNFORGETTABLE HEROINE, PRECIOUS.
The Kidis an electrifying story of body and spirit that takes us deep into the interior life of Abdul. We meet him at age nine, on the day of his mother's funeral. Left alone to navigate in a world where the edges of love and hate often bleed into one another with horrifying consequences, and forced to confront unspeakable violence, his history and the dark corners of his own heart, Abdul claws his way toward adulthood and toward an identity he can stand behind - an identity that crystallizes when he discovers his extraordinary talent and passion for dance.
In a generational story that moves with the speed of thought from a Mississippi dirt farm to Harlem in its heyday, and from a troubled Catholic orphanage to downtown artist's lofts, The Kidtells of a twenty-first-century young man's fight to find a way toward the future. A testament to the ferocity of the human spirit and to the nourishing power of love and art, the Kid becomes a young man about to take flight. Intimate, terrifying and deeply alive, Abdul's journey bears witness to an artist's birth by fire.