- ISBN13: 9780399155345
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product 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. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
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… More >>
The Help
hi, i thought i had already contacted you that this book arrived with the binding completely broken. i have been reading it in groups of pages. very frustrating and i would like a new book or a refund. thank you, becky miller Rating: 1 / 5
try a sample saved me ten bucks
i got bored quickly reading black maids
kill the english language on and on and on for no purpose than to allow the author not to “write”
this isn’t literature but fodder for bleeding hearts
rrs in pa Rating: 1 / 5
If you enjoy reading about how horrible life has been for blacks in this country and haven’t yet gotten enough of that in the last 100 years, have at it. Otherwise, find something entertaining that isn’t the same old “woe is me, I’m black” song-and-dance. Tiring story. Rating: 1 / 5
Read The Northern Clemency if you all want a page turner. Beautifully written account of England in the 1970’s.
The Help? I don’t understand what is happening in the world of novels! Why do I seem so alone on my not liking this book? In fact, I thought it should be entitled: Mississippi, the Darky State. Really offensive and still believe (of course my first review was not published and this one probably won’t be either because I’m writing the truth here) a story about a black family who have white help would be more interesting. Maybe Mrs. Obama will have some ideas, after her reign at the WHITE HOUSE. Rating: 1 / 5
Well… I haven’t read the book yet. But on my Kindle I have read the SAMPLE. Maybe it has a good plot and a good storyline. BUT did anyone here say that this book has a “Miley Cyrus” accent, With absolutely annoying grammar like… “Taking care a white babies.” And “I done raised seventeen kids in my lifetime.” Also stuff like “There she be.” Instead of there she is… So hope this interview helped :D Not that I didn’t like the book (I haven’t even read it) but the southern accent -I think- Is too much. Rating: 3 / 5