The Help

Informationen zum Autor Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. Her first novel, The Help , has sold over 1 million copies in the UK and 15 million copies worldwide. It spent over two years on The New York Times bestsellers list, twenty-one weeks at Number 1, and has been translated into 38 languages and adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. The Calamity Club is her second novel. Klappentext Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. This is her first novel. Zusammenfassung Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver... There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; and, Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue.

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn Stockett
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.05.2010
• EAN: 9780141039282
• ISBN: 978-0-14-103928-2
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; USA, Mississippi, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Media Tie-In, FICTION / Southern, c 1960 to c 1970, c 1960 to c 1969, FICTION / African American & Black / Women, FICTION / African American & Black / Historical