A Chance to Win (ePub)
When Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from...
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist follows an embattled Little League team in inner-city Newark, New Jersey, revealing the complex realities of urban life in one of America's most dangerous cities
When Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newark's rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed, he vowed to turn his life around. A former high-school pitching ace with a 93 mph fastball, Mason decided to form a Little League team to help boys avoid the street life that had claimed his youth and mobility. Predictably, the players struggle-they endure poverty, unstable family lives with few positive male role models, failing schools, and dangerous neighborhoods-but through the fists and tears, lopsided losses and rare victories, this bunch of misfits becomes a team, and in doing so gives the community something to root for. With in-depth reporting, fascinating characters, and vivid prose, Jonathan Schuppe's A Chance to Win is both a penetrating, true-to-life portrait of what's at stake for kids growing up poor in America's inner cities and a portrait of Newark itself, a struggling city that has recently known great hope as well as failure.
- Autor: Jonathan Schuppe
- 2013, 288 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
- ISBN-10: 1429974435
- ISBN-13: 9781429974431
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.05.2013
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- Größe: 0.59 MB
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