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Issues. Abdul Jones is nine years old when his mother Precious dies. Parentless, he is sent first to a foster home and then to a Catholic orphanage. But the priests charged to care for him abuse his trust terribly. And Abdul, a victim, finds that he reacts in the most frightening way imaginable. Soon he is trapped in a dark cycle of sexual violence and betrayal. Yet through dance, in controlling his body, he discovers a way he might somehow break free and become himself. A harrowing and powerful novel set in New York, The Kid is a portrait of a boy forced to grow up in a cruel and callous world.
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The Kid, Sapphire
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- 2012
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- Título
- The Kid
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Sapphire
- Editorial
- Penguin UK
- Publicado en
- 2012
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0241957303
- ISBN13
- 9780241957301
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Ficción contemporánea, Literatura afroamericana
- Calificación
- 2,95 de 5
- Descripción
- Issues. Abdul Jones is nine years old when his mother Precious dies. Parentless, he is sent first to a foster home and then to a Catholic orphanage. But the priests charged to care for him abuse his trust terribly. And Abdul, a victim, finds that he reacts in the most frightening way imaginable. Soon he is trapped in a dark cycle of sexual violence and betrayal. Yet through dance, in controlling his body, he discovers a way he might somehow break free and become himself. A harrowing and powerful novel set in New York, The Kid is a portrait of a boy forced to grow up in a cruel and callous world.