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The Help (Large Print)
Paperback
Main Details
Title |
The Help (Large Print)
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Kathryn Stockett
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback | Pages:719 |
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Category/Genre | Large Print Large Print Press All Dates Fiction |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781594133886
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Edition |
Large Print Edition
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Large Print Press
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Imprint |
Large Print Press
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NZ Release Date |
5 April 2011 |
Publication Country |
United States
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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. 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, Aibileens best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobodys business, but she cant mind her tongue, so shes 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.
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