There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award) - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780385265560ISBN-10:385265565UPC:9780385265560Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, Children's Studies, SociologyBook Topic:American, UrbanAward:1992 Helen Bernstein Book Award Winner - Excellence in Journalism AwardSize:8.04 x 5.18 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC26E6MZ8R
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A moving and powerful account by an acclaimed journalist that "informs the heart. [This] meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is required to survive, let alone escape" (The New York Times).
"Alex Kotlowitz joins the ranks of the important few writers on the subiect of urban poverty."--Chicago Tribune The story of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
"Alex Kotlowitz joins the ranks of the important few writers on the subiect of urban poverty."--Chicago Tribune The story of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780385265560ISBN-10:385265565UPC:9780385265560Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, Children's Studies, SociologyBook Topic:American, UrbanAward:1992 Helen Bernstein Book Award Winner - Excellence in Journalism AwardSize:8.04 x 5.18 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC26E6MZ8R
ALEX KOTLOWITZ is the author of the national bestseller There Are No Children Here, which the New York Public Library selected as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. His second book, The Other Side of the River, was awarded the Heartland Prize for Non-Fiction. For his documentary film, The Interrupters, he received an Emmy and a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary. Kotlowitz's work, which has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and on public radio's This American Life, has been honored with two Peabody awards, two duPont-Columbia University awards, and a George Polk Award. He is a writer in residence at Northwestern University. Kotlowitz lives with his wife, Maria Woltjen, and their two children, Mattie and Lucas, just outside of Chicago.
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🏆 1992 Helen Bernstein Book Award Winner - Excellence in Journalism Award
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