The short and tragic life of Robert Peace
Subtitle: a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League
By: Jeff Hobbs
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print biography; Thorndike Press large print biography series
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 659
ISBN-13: 9781410477194
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Alumni and alumnae; African American college graduates; Yale University; Working class African Americans; Drug dealers; Friends and associates; Biography
Description: On arriving at Yale, Jeff Hobbs became fast friends with the man who would be his roommate for four years. Robert Peace's life had been rough, living in poverty with his mother in 1980s Newark, his father in jail. But he was a brilliant student, and it was supposed to get easier. It didn't. In an honest rendering of Robert's relationships in two fiercely insular worlds, Hobbs encompasses the most enduring conflicts in America.   (Bestseller)
Notes: Originally published: New York : Scribner, 2014.