Subtitle: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
Author: Alex Kotlowitz
Publisher: Doubleday (1992)
ISBN-10: 0385265565
ISBN-13: 9780385265560
Condition: Very Good. The corners of the boards and the spine-ends are bumped. The edges of the DJ have some wear and there is some scuffing along the folds. Price clipped. Else a very good copy.
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 324
Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.0 x 2.8 cm
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by Alex Kotlowitz
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One of the surprise bestsellers of 1991, this is the moving and powerful account 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 subject of urban poverty.