Sounder

Zusatztext "The writing is simple, timeless, and extraordinarily moving. An oustanding book." Informationen zum Autor William H. Armstrong grew up in Lexington, Virginia. He graduated from Hampden-Sydney College and did graduate work at the University of Virginia. He taught ancient history and study techniques at the Kent School for fifty-two years. Author of more than a dozen books for adults and children, he won the John Newbery Medal for Sounder in 1970 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Hampden-Sydney College in 1986. Klappentext A timeless classic, winner of the John Newberry Medal, and the basis of an acclaimed film, Sounder is a novel that tells of the courage and love that bind a black family together despite the extreme prejudice and inhumanity it faces in the Deep South . Zusammenfassung " Sounder  is a remarkable story, compassionate, powerfully moving, showing the qualities of dignity and endurance at their highest, in both man and beast. A memorable dog story, it is also the chronicle of a man, a woman, and a boy, equally hard to forget. . . .  Sounder  will be read for a long time to come." — Wall Street Journal A timeless classic, winner of the John Newberry Medal, and the basis of an acclaimed film,  Sounder  is a novel that tells of the courage and love that binds a Black family together despite the extreme prejudice and inhumanity it faces in the Deep South.

Product details

• Authors: William H Armstrong, William H. Armstrong, William Howard Armstrong
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2001
• EAN: 9780060935481
• ISBN: 978-0-06-093548-1
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Perennial Classics; Perennial Classics
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Women, FICTION: Media Tie-In, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FICTION: African American & Black / General, RELIGION: THEOLOGY, FICTION: Animals, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: FICTION, RELIGION: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Russian & Former Soviet Union