Ergebnis für "JP" in Literatur & Belletristik

Street Prince is a tender portrait of a twelve-year-old boy, grappling with tragic losses and unforgiving poverty. After giving birth, his teenage mother abandoned him at the hospital, leaving a scribbled note: His name is Lamont, I am no fit mother. Keep my baby boy. Letty J. His maternal grandmother "Elma" raises him as her own child. Thought to be dead, her estranged daughter returns home with two other children. A disastrous homecoming party takes place. Lamont meets a new classmate, the prim and proper Esmaria. The children plan to sit together at church the next day.

Beneath a sky of bruised and "venomous purple," where the river's "relentless plink" tolls the knell of a pauper's soul, dwells Jacob—a man consumed by a "black fury" and a "simmering rage." From the threshold of a "shack that seems to lurch and sway," he gazes upon the Mallory estate, those "insolent constellations of wealth" that glitter like cold stars to mock his misery.