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Title	The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

Category: Humor & Entertainment, Arts & Photography
Author: Gene Stone, Lauren Landish
Publisher: Arthur Edward Waite, Alex Haley
Published: 2018-03-11
Writer: Chronicle Books Staff
Language: Dutch, Arabic, Spanish, Afrikaans
Format: epub, pdf

The Short and Powerful Biography of Robert Peace - A lot of books declare themselves to be “the [insert adjective] life of [insert name].” “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” “The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” “The Storied Life of Fikry” (which I reviewed a few weeks ago). Now, there is one more: “The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace,” by Jeff Hobbs ’02.

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace - What does the untimely death of one man mean? Robert Peace was born outside Newark in a ghetto known as "Illtown." His unwed mother

Read The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace Online by Jeff Hobbs | Books - An instant New York Times bestseller, named a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, Amazon, and Entertainment Weekly, among others, this celebrated account of a young African-American man who escaped Newark, NJ, to attend Yale, but still faced the dangers of the streets when he returned is, “nuanced and shattering” (People) and “mesmeric” (The New York Times Book Review).When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Robert Peace. Robert’s life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, with his father in jail and his mother earning less than $15,000 a year. But Robert was a brilliant student, and it was supposed to get easier when he was accepted to Yale, where he studied molecular biochemistry and biophysics. But it didn’t get easier. Robert carried with him the difficult dual nature of his existence, trying to fit in at Yale, and at home on breaks.

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