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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:

Hobbs, Jeff, (1980-)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Scribner , 2014Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: viii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9781476731902

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 PEA

LOC classification:

E185.97.P38 H63 2014

Summary: Chronicles the life of Peace, who was born in a Newark, N.J., ghetto to an impoverished single mom and a father who went to prison for murder. Thanks to his mother's sacrifices and his extraordinary intellect he went to Yale and got a biology degree, but when he returned to Newark after college, he became a drug dealer and was eventually shot to death by rivals. Writing with novelistic detail and deep insight, Hobbs, who was Peace's roommate at Yale, reveals a man whose singular experience and charisma made him simultaneously an outsider and a leader in both New Haven and Newark. This is a classic tragedy of a man who, with the best intentions, chooses an ineluctable path to disaster.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	92 PEA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		003478

Chronicles the life of Peace, who was born in a Newark, N.J., ghetto to an impoverished single mom and a father who went to prison for murder. Thanks to his mother's sacrifices and his extraordinary intellect he went to Yale and got a biology degree, but when he returned to Newark after college, he became a drug dealer and was eventually shot to death by rivals. Writing with novelistic detail and deep insight, Hobbs, who was Peace's roommate at Yale, reveals a man whose singular experience and charisma made him simultaneously an outsider and a leader in both New Haven and Newark. This is a classic tragedy of a man who, with the best intentions, chooses an ineluctable path to disaster.

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