| |  | Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
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Rating:  2375 reviews
Sales Rank: 7
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 464
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.4
ISBN: 0399155341
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780399155345
ASIN: 0399155341
Publication Date: February 10, 2009
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 Made me think about that time in my life July 28, 2010
E. LAMBERSON (Johns Island, SC United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am really enjoying this book. I was in an all white high school at this time in Decatur, GA and this is how I remember the "colored" ladies talking (but more "aint" in their language than in the book). We never saw or knew any "colored" people except those who worked for our families as maids and yardmen. We loved them but did not understand the "line" we were not to cross. Most of us were totally ignorant and thought the colored people had their own place where we were not allowed to go! We wanted to sit in the back of the bus but it was reserved for the colored people. How ironic.........friends later told me the same thing, they thought we were not allowed in the balcony of the movies because it was reserved for the colored people. No one in our families ever talked about the plight of the black people. I actually had never met an educated black person until I started to work at in a hospital in 1970.
I thought it was both absorbing and interesting.
It is a book of fiction; so, dont get your dander up. Read something else if this one offends you.
The Help July 28, 2010
Maureen Galeone (LUTZ, FLORIDA, US)
I read this from theibrary and it is so good that I had to own my very own copy! It is a facinating story about what women do to other less fortunate women.
The Help July 28, 2010
LeeHC
Beautifully written...characters could not be drawn more understandably nor the action and interaction more clearly.
If you want change - create change July 28, 2010
If you want change - create change. That is the basis of this book for me. The Help came highly recommended and I read it in 2.5 days. I found it a stunning tome and was recommending it to others before I had finished it!
From character development to plot this book is well written and well played out. The realness and depth of the characters is astounding from the humble compassion of Aibileen to the well meant sass of Minny.
This is a book that I plan to read over and over again and tell someone new about each time.
Excellent read! July 28, 2010
Torie
I am generally a non-fiction reader, but I took a break from reading non-fiction to read "The Help". A close family member had rated it 5-stars on a book review website that I am a part of, and I had just passed it on a book shelf at the store. I couldn't put it down, even on our busy Mediterranean vacation that we've just returned from. It's an excellent read giving people like me, whom have never been to the South or a witness to segregation, a peek into what life may have been like during the Civil Rights era. Touching story.
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