Ordinary resurrections, children in the years of hope, Jonathan Kozol
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Ordinary resurrections, children in the years of hope, Jonathan Kozol
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Ordinary resurrections
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
43083198
Responsibility statement
Jonathan Kozol
Review
"In a stirring departure from his earlier work, Jonathan Kozol has written his most personal and hopeful book to date, an energized and unexpected answer to the bleakness of Death at an Early Age, the classic that he published more than 30 years ago."
Sub title
children in the years of hope
Summary
"Like his most recent book, Amazing Grace, this work also takes place in New York's South Bronx; but it is a markedly different book in mood and vantage point, because we see life this time through the eyes of children, not, as the author puts it, from the perspective of a grown-up man encumbered with a Harvard educationHere, too, we see devoted teachers in a good but underfunded public elementary school that manages, against all odds, to be a warm, inviting, and protective place; and we see the children also in the intimate religious setting of a church in which they are watched over by the vigilant grandmothers of the neighborhood and by a priest whose ministry is, first and foremost, to the very young.""A work of guarded optimism that avoids polemic and the fevered ideologies of partisan debate, Ordinary Resurrections is a book about the little miracles of stubbornly persistent innocence in children who are still unsoiled by the world and still can view their place within it without cynicism or despair.""The author's personal involvement with specific children deepens as the narrative evolves. A Jewish man, now 63 years old, he finds his own religious speculations growing interwoven with the moral and religious explorations of the children, some of whom have been his friends for nearly seven yearsThe children change, of course, from year to year as they learn more about the world; but the author is changed also by the generous and tender ways in which the children, step by step, unlock their secrets and unveil the mysteries of their belief to him."--Jacket
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- Children + Social conditions
- Mott Haven (New York, N.Y.) -- Conditions sociales
- Enfants handicapés sociaux -- New York (État) -- New York
- New York (State) + New York
- Children with social disabilities
- Enfants -- New York (État) -- New York -- Conditions sociales
- Social conditions
- Children with social disabilities -- New York (State) -- New York
- Mott Haven (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
- Children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
- African American children -- South Bronz, New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
- New York (State) + New York + Mott Haven
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- Subject12
- Children + Social conditions
- Mott Haven (New York, N.Y.) -- Conditions sociales
- Enfants handicapés sociaux -- New York (État) -- New York
- New York (State) + New York
- Children with social disabilities
- Enfants -- New York (État) -- New York -- Conditions sociales
- Social conditions
- Children with social disabilities -- New York (State) -- New York
- Mott Haven (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
- Children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
- African American children -- South Bronz, New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
- New York (State) + New York + Mott Haven
- Content1
- Other version1
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