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Features:- ISBN13: 9780399155345
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780399155345
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0399155341
Label: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Manufacturer: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: February 10, 2009
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Studio: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
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Product Description:
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.
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This was an emotional account of the experiences of black maids in 1960s Mississippi. At times funny and touching, it included disturbing accounts of how badly most of them were treated. I was in constant fear (as they must have been) that they would be found out and suffer horrible consequences. The ending was a tad unbelievable, but on the whole I really enjoyed this book.
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I think a person would be hard pressed to find a better book than this one. It's about strong relationships during a very difficult time. It kept me up late. I recommend it without hesitaion.
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I had heard so much about this book from so many people and finally purchased it to read over my Christmas vacation. Well, I absolutely loved this book and read it in no time because I could not put it down. It was brilliantly written and pulled me into the story like so few books do these days. You must read this!
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"The Help" has held a place on the NYTimes bestseller list for a long time, and it's well-deserved. "The Help" is the compelling story of the life of two housekeepers in Jackson, Mississippi right in the middle of the Civil Rights movement of the 60's. We tend to focus on Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, the church bombing and other high-profile events of the era, but "The Help" shines a light on the daily lives of the thousands of black women who came into contact with the white world on a daily ... Read More
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The Help is one of the best comptemporary novels I have read in years. Everything about this story is as real as non-fiction. Read it for the dialogue channeled by Kathryn Stockett like she has multiple personalities. Read it for the slice of American history if you're too young to have lived it. Read it for the sheer pleasure of perfectly crafted sentence structure. Read it because it will be a movie soon and hopefully be as true as the treatment of The Secret Life of Bees on the big screen. ... Read More
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