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- Publisher: Demco Media (April 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0606241809
- ISBN-13: 978-0606241809
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 14 x 1.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly
Cary, a black woman, recounts her challenging years as student and teacher at an elite prep school. Author tour.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
From School Library Journal
YA-- A streetwise kid from West Philly, Cary was the first African-American female to attend St. Paul's, a prestigious New England prep school. With tremendous drive, she set out to achieve self-imposed academic, athletic, and social goals. Although she believed she owed it to the school that accepted her on scholarship, to her family who encouraged and sacrificed, and to those who will come after, she found that the price was great. The emotional distance from her family widened with the geographic separation, and their deep love and pride could not make up for their blindness to her discomfort. While Cary achieved most of her aims, thus justifying the experience to herself, perceptive readers will be pained at her need to do so. Broader in scope than most coming-of-age memoirs, this candid account is sure to strike a sympathetic chord.
-Jackie Gropman, Richard Byrd Library, Springfield, VA
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
-Jackie Gropman, Richard Byrd Library, Springfield, VA
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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I had never heard of St. Paul's School until Mrs. Evans rang to tell me about it one fall night in 1971. Read the first page
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1.0 out of 5 stars
I'm Soooooooo Confused!!!!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Black Ice (Paperback)
Black Ice was by far one of the most difficult and boring books I've ever read. I choose this book because it was and autobiography about a young African American girl and I thought in some way I could relate. First of all, the book starts off completely slow and it stays that way throughout the whole book. It doesn't have any parts that are interesting or keep your attention. One other thing I didn't like was the fact that the words she used were dull and hard to understand. There were too many characters and she jumped back and forth between them throughout the entire story, so you never know whom she's talking about or what their purpose is in the story. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone under the age of 21 and I'd never read it again.
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Dull and confusing...,
By Steph (CT, US) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Black Ice (Paperback)
I recently finished reading the book Black Ice, and did not understand what the whole point of the book was. i also had to write a report on the book and you dont have any idea how many hours i spent and headaches I had trying to find some plot the story.a definite "dont-read-unless-you-have-to" and a big disappointment. I am a big reader, and I have found few books boring, but this book was a clear exception.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Black Ice--No Dice,
By A Customer
This review is from: Black Ice (Paperback)
Black Ice is a badly written memoir. Though I am an avid reader, I found myself struggling to get through this work. Not only does it lack insight into her situation, Cary consistently practiced poor word choice in her writing, leaving the reader wondering what her intention was. I also question Cary's editors at Vintage Books--why did they allow her to leave in page after page of lackluster prose describing the minutia of her life? (i.e., pp.60-61 in which Cary describes dropping her soap) I am shocked that reviewer Arnold Rampersad and the Washington Post Book World placed Cary in the same league as Maya Angelou and Richard Wright. Having recently read Ron Suskind's Hope in the Unseen which was a fabulous nonfiction book about a young African American's struggle to fit into life at Brown University, I was disappointed that this coming-of-age offered such little insight into Cary's inner world.
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