The Help (Hardback) By (author) Kathryn Stockett

Full bibliographic data for The Help

Title

The Help

Authors and contributors

By (author) Kathryn Stockett

Physical properties

Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 451
Width: 163 mm
Height: 233 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight: 689 g

Audience

General/trade

Language

English

ISBN

ISBN 13: 9780399155345
ISBN 10: 0399155341

Classifications

Dewey: 813.6
Nielsen BookScan Product Class: F1.1
Dewey: 813/.6
BICMainSubject: FA
BISAC category code: FIC019000
Dewey: FIC
BISAC category code: FIC044000

Edition

1

Publisher

Amy Einhorn Books

Imprint name

Amy Einhorn Books

Publication date

10 February 2009

Publication City/Country

New York, NY/US

Main description

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 knows both their hearts may be broken.Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women— mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.

Review quote

?"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett is a story that made me weep as I rejoiced for each of humanity's small but steady triumphs over hate and fear. I will never forget this wonderful book.? ?Dorothea Benton Frank ?A magical novel. Heartbreaking and oh so true, the voices of these characters, their lives and struggles will stay with you long after you reluctantly come to the end.? ?Robert Hicks, "New York Times"? bestselling author of "The Widow of the South" ?I love "The Help." Kathryn Stockett has given us glorious characters and a powerful, truth-filled story. Abilene, Minny and Skeeter, show that people from this troubled time came together despite their differences and that ordinary women can be heroic.? ?Jill Conner Browne, #1 "New York Times" Bestselling Author of "The Sweet Potato Queens" series and resident of Jackson, MS ?Set in the rural South of the 1960's, "THE HELP" is a startling, resonant portrait of the intertwined lives of women on oppo

Biographical note

Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she moved to New York City where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. This is her first novel.