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by Jonathan Kozol

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The children in this book defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by the media. Tender, generous and often religiously devout, they speak with eloquence and honesty about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them.

The book does not romanticize or soften the effects of violence and sickness. One fourth of the child-bearing women in the neighborhoods where these children live test positive for HIV. Pediatric AIDs, life-consuming fires and gang rivalries take a high toll. Several children die during the year in which this narrative takes place.

A gently written work, Amazing Grace asks questions that are at once political and theological. What is the value of a child's life? What exactly do we plan to do with those whom we appear to have defined as economically and humanly superfluous? How cold -- how cruel, how tough -- do we dare be?

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  • Title Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
  • Author Jonathan Kozol
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1996-09
  • ISBN 9780060976972 / 0060976977
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.34 x 0.76 in (20.32 x 13.56 x 1.93 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Inner cities - New York (State) - New York, Poor children - New York (State) - New York
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013655021
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.709
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