Full name: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

Author: Jeff Hobbs Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Biographies, Award winners, Memoirs Culture: African-American Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Google Books Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781476731902 9781476731919 147673190X 1476731918

Traces a young man's effort to escape the dangers of the streets and his own nature after graduating from Yale, describing his youth in violent 1980s Newark, efforts to navigate two fiercely insular worlds and life-ending drug deals. 75,000 first printing. Similar books: The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King Wrapped in Rainbows by Valerie Boyd Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis On Her Own Ground by A'Lelia Bundles Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story by D. T. Max A Chance Meeting by Rachel Cohen Malcolm X by Walter Dean Myers Passing Strange by Martha A. Sandweiss A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind Chester Himes by James Sallis Who Was Roald Dahl? by True Kelley The Ditchdigger's Daughters by Yvonne S. Thornton Portraits of African-American Heroes by Tonya Bolden Johnny Carson by Henry Bushkin Looking Back by Lois Lowry The Color of Water by James McBride Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow