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The Help
written by Kathryn Stockett
Studio : Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
by Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Publisher : Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Released : 2009-02-10
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780399155345
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 2374 reviews)
List Price : $24.95
Our Price : $11.80
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ISBN13: 9780399155345
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Condition: New
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Product Description |
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t. |
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Down to earth and heart-warming |
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Amazing book -- great read! I had to slow myself down because I dreaded coming to the end and not having any more to read. It's written in a down-to-earth, raw manner without being over the top and insulting. Aside from the main storyline, it speaks to being a woman [of many kinds] and being a mother. There were many moments where I felt compelled to pause and just reflect. Beautifully written, very entertaining. |
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A Great Read |
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After several friends encouraged me to read this book, I did. I loved it! It was so eye-opening for me. How crazy it is that when my mom was a little kid she could not go to school with black children. |
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The Help |
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This book arrived less than a week from the day ordered. It is very engrossing, can hardly put it down, as it reviews attitudes towards black and white people in the early 1960's. (After all the Civil Rights activities is is hard to remember the old days.) Stockett makes her characters, black and white, believable and honest in their daily lives and their reactions to events going on around them, i.e. murder and maiming of black men, all the rules the Negro must abide by, fear of being seen with a member of the other race, the degrading circumstances the blacks had to live in. I'm not quite finished with it, but hope that improvements will be made for the black people in the story. Probably there won't be many improvements for the black people until some of the white women are knocked up side of the head. |
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READ IT!!! |
The Help by Kathryn Stockett is a definite must read! It is a warm and poignant novel. One that has the potential to be a timeless piece and passed on and on...and on.
Three women, Skeeter, Aibileen, and Minny, join forces to embark on a seemingly impossible mission. They come from very different backgrounds but defy the rules of 1960s Mississippi regarding race relations and come together on a project that could put their lives in danger. Racial tensions begin to fly high as these women race to accomplish one common goal...to be heard.
Kathryn Stockett succeeded in writing a captivating novel. I really enjoyed reading it, and found it hard to put down. I was introduced to it by my mother, who was visiting me after I gave birth to my son. She was staying with us, and the book never seemed to leave her hands. And periodically I'd hear laughter or a shocked gasp come from her as she read it, so it peaked my interest. I never expected to have time to read since I had a newborn to tend to, but let me tell you, this book is so good I found myself creating time to read it. I'd balance baby in one hand and book in the other, or if I had to hold him and calm him down or pump, I'd crack the spine so the pages stayed flat and leave it open on the bed. It was that good!
It was such a page turner, it kept me wondering what happened next, or why something happened.The characters were so realistic I felt I was right there with them understanding their emotions. I felt I knew exactly who they were, not just a name, but who they were as people and understanding the personality of each one as if I knew them personally.
There were plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, and equally as many OMG (oh my goodness) moments. Every chapter created a picture or scene that moved you to feel fear or sadness, even excitement. I definitely finished the book with a new found respect for the natives of 1960s Mississippi. I even felt thankful for never having to experience such negativity, but also wondered if I have, or ever had, that type of strength.
A really good book, which is exactly what The Help is, makes you do a self-examination. And The Help does just that. It forces (or moves) you to look at yourself and discover the real person you are within. I can tell you it inspires me to be better and even have faith that in a world of negative thought, there is still some good in people.
The Help is all encompassing, and we should definitely embrace it. So this gets a definite READ IT from me.
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A book you miss after you finish |
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I enjoyed every minute while reading this book. The characters were real and believable and the plot well woven while also being enlightening. |
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