An award-winning journalist provides a vivid and heartwarming portrait of a friendship that spans generations, between Margaret Oliver, a ninety-year-old wheelchair-bound resident of a Manhattan nursing home, and Elvis Checo, a poor, Hispanic teenage volunteer, describing the course of their relationship as the diverse worlds of the very young and very old come together. Reprint.
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L'autore:
Sonny Kleinfield is a reporter for The New York Times and the author of seven previous books. He has contributed articles to The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Esquire, and Rolling Stone, and he was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal before joining the Times. He shared in a Pulitzer Prize for a Times series on race in America and has received a number of journalism awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Meyer Berger Award, an American Society of Newspaper Editors Award, and the Gerald Loeb Award. A native of Fair Lawn, New Jersey, he is a graduate of New York University and lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
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Book by Kleinfield Sonny
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- EditoreTimes Books
- Data di pubblicazione2006
- ISBN 10 0805080600
- ISBN 13 9780805080605
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine274
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