The Jacob Ladder - Couverture souple

Hausman, Gerald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1617201979 ISBN 13 : 9781617201974

Editeur : Irie Books, 2011

Synopsis

Twelve-year-old Tall T's life has just turned upside down. His father suddenly leaves the family after drinking a bowl of bewitched soup given him by the obeah woman who lives next door. With his father no longer with them, Tall T must be head of the house and help his mother take care of his five brothers and sisters. But earning money isn't easy in a small Jamaican town. How can Tall T go to school and earn money at the same time? His mother tells him he must be like Jacob in the Bible -- Jacob who dreamed of miracles -- and Tall will need a miracle if he is to help his family survive. Luckily for him, miracles can come in unexpected forms.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

The story of Uton Hinds, a Jamaican taxi cab driver, is told in this fictionalized autobiography. With Hausman, Hinds has written of his childhood in a small Jamaican port town where his father was head of the dock workers and his mother was a laundress. Hinds, called "Tall T," both fears and loves his father, Brother John, who leaves his six children in dire poverty by losing his wages each week to bone dice and rum. Tall T proudly collects money for his father's group of johkonnu dancers, only to see his father gamble it away. As if that were not bad enough, Brother John is bewitched by the abeah (voodoo) woman next door and leaves his family for her. Hinds' story is told with restraint and no hint of self-pity. When Tall T is forced to leave school because he has no uniform, he starts reading, guided by the local librarian. Tall T feels helpless until he proves to himself that he is a man by climbing a 60-foot cliff on vines called The Jacob Ladder. Without preaching, this tale of struggle affirms the need for people to love and care for each other. It will give deprived children someone with whom to identify and reveal the pain of poverty to complacent middle class readers.
--Library Talk, September/October 2001, starred review

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Irie Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1617201979
• ISBN 13: 9781617201974
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 116
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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