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The short and tragic life of Robert Peace : a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League / Jeff Hobbs.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2014Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: viii, 406 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781476731902 (hardcover)
  • 9781476731919
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 974.9 B 23
LOC classification:
  • E 185.97 H682s 2014
Summary: Peace was a talented young African-American man who escaped the slums of Newark for Yale University, only to succumb to the dangers of the streets -- and of one's own nature -- when he returned home. When Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with Peace, his college roommate for four years. Peace's life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, and he carried with him the difficult dual nature of his existence, "fronting" in Yale and at home. Through an honest rendering of Peace's relationships, Hobbs examines the collision of two fiercely insular worlds.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso) E 185.97 H682s 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000127415

Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2014
Runner-up for Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Nonfiction) 2015


Peace was a talented young African-American man who escaped the slums of Newark for Yale University, only to succumb to the dangers of the streets -- and of one's own nature -- when he returned home. When Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with Peace, his college roommate for four years. Peace's life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, and he carried with him the difficult dual nature of his existence, "fronting" in Yale and at home. Through an honest rendering of Peace's relationships, Hobbs examines the collision of two fiercely insular worlds.

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