Книга: Kathryn Stockett «The Help»
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Производитель: "Penguin Books Ltd." Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren`t trusted not to steal the silver... There`s Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son`s tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and, white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they`d be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in a search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell... Издательство: "Penguin Books Ltd." (2011) Формат: 110x180, 464 стр.
ISBN: 978-0-241-95654-0 |
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Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett (* 1969 in Jackson, Mississippi) ist eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin.
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Leben
Kathryn Stockett wuchs unter der Obhut einer schwarzen Hausangestellten in Jackson auf, da ihre Mutter die Familie verlassen hatte. Sie machte ihren Abschluss in Englisch und Kreativem Schreiben an der University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa und ging danach nach New York City. Sie arbeitete dort bis zum Jahre 2001 neun Jahre lang bei verschiedenen Zeitschriften und im Bereich Marketing.
Stocketts erster Roman Gute Geister (engl. The Help) beschreibt die Arbeit von farbigen Hausangestellten in den Haushalten weißer Familien zu Beginn der 1960er Jahre in ihrer Heimatstadt.
Stockett lebt heute (2011) mit ihrer Familie in Atlanta, Georgia.
Preise und Ehrungen
- 2011: Prix des lectrices de Elle.
Veröffentlichungen
- 2009: The Help, Berkley Books, New York, NY 2009 ISBN 978-0-425232200
- deutsch: Gute Geister, aus dem Englischen von Cornelia Holfelder-von der Tann; btb, München 2011 ISBN 978-3-442-75240-9[1]
Filmografie (Auswahl)
- 2011: The Help (Buch)
Weblinks
- Webseite der Autorin
- Kathryn Stockett in der deutschen und englischen Version der Internet Movie Database
Einzelnachweis
- Autor
- US-Amerikaner
- Geboren 1969
- Frau
Источник: Kathryn Stockett
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