The short and tragic life of Robert Peace : a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League / Jeff Hobbs.

First Scribner hardcover edition.

9781476731902 hardcover
147673190X hardcover
9781476731919 paperback
1476731918 paperback

New York : Scribner, 2014.

English

viii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

E185.97.P38 H63 2014

974.9/044092 B

Peace was a talented young African-American man who escaped the slums of Newark for Yale University, only to succumb to the dangers of the streets -- and of one's own nature -- when he returned home. When Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with Peace, his college roommate for four years. Peace's life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, and he carried with him the difficult dual nature of his existence, "fronting" in Yale and at home. Through an honest rendering of Peace's relationships, Hobbs examines the collision of two fiercely insular worlds.

Includes bibliographical references.

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