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		Hobbs, Jeff, 1980-

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		Peace, Robert, 1980-2011.
		Hobbs, Jeff, 1980- -- Friends and associates.
		Yale University -- Alumni and alumnae -- Biography.
		Drug dealers -- New Jersey -- Biography.
		College graduates, Black -- Biography.
		Youth, Black -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Biography.
		Working class -- New Jersey -- Biography.
		Children of single parents -- Biography.
		Fatherless families -- Biography.
		Drug dealers -- New Jersey -- Biography.

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		Yale University -- Alumni and alumnae -- Biography.
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		College graduates, Black -- Biography.
		Youth, Black -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Biography.
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The short and tragic life of Robert Peace : a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League / Jeff Hobbs.

by Hobbs, Jeff, 1980-

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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, c2015.

LP 362.508996 P355h

Peace, Robert, 1980-2011.

Hobbs, Jeff, 1980- -- Friends and associates.

Yale University -- Alumni and alumnae -- Biography.

Drug dealers -- New Jersey -- Biography.

College graduates, Black -- Biography.

Youth, Black -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Biography.

Working class -- New Jersey -- Biography.

Children of single parents -- Biography.

Fatherless families -- Biography.

Drug dealers -- New Jersey -- Biography.

9781410477194 (large print : hc.)

1410477193 (large print : hc.)

Large print ed.

659 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. ,

"The short life of a talented young Black man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets when he returns home. When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Robert Peace. Robert's life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, with his father in jail and his mother earning less than $15,000 a year. But Robert was a brilliant student, and it was supposed to get easier when he was accepted to Yale, where he studied molecular biochemistry and biophysics. But it didn't get easier. Robert carried with him the difficult dual nature of his existence, "fronting" in Yale, and at home. Through an honest rendering of Robert's relationships -- with his struggling mother, with his incarcerated father, with his teachers and friends and fellow drug dealers -- this story encompasses the most enduring conflicts in America: race, class, drugs, community, imprisonment, education, family, friendship, and love. It's about the collision of two fiercely insular worlds -- the ivy-covered campus of Yale University and Newark, New Jersey, and the difficulty of going from one to the other and then back again. It's about poverty, the challenges of single motherhood, and the struggle to find male role models in a community where a man is more likely to go to prison than to college. It's about reaching one's greatest potential and taking responsibility for your family no matter the cost. It's about trying to live a decent life in America. But most all the story is about the tragic life of one singular brilliant young man"--Provided by publisher.

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