Título: Leaving Atlanta: a novel
Autor: Tayari Jones
Sinopse: Based on the Atlanta child murders of 1979-1980, this wrenching debut novel is told from the perspective of three Atlanta fifth-graders living in the midst of the crisis. Tasha is a sweet, conflicted middle-class girl navigating the harsh social waters of her school. Rodney, "the weirdest boy in class," is an unpopular kid who feels both pushed and ignored by his perfectionist parents. Octavia is a whip-smart, confident social outcast who carefully notes that she lives "across the street" from the projects. Jones, who was a child herself in Atlanta in the late '70s and early '80s, weaves her tale with consummate ease, shifting from third to second to first person as she switches narrators. The details of the children's everyday life playground fights, school cafeteria breakfasts, candy store visits are convincingly presented and provide an emotional context for the murders. When classmates begin disappearing, we know that they, along with their peers, are not one-dimensional innocents. One night when Octavia sneaks a late-night look at the local news, she sees a now-missing classmate flash on the screen. "In the picture he looked like a regular boy from our class. He was by himself so you couldn't tell that he was shorter than most of them and just nicer and smarter than all of them put together. Kodak commercials say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but the one they showed of Rodney ain't worth more than three or four. Boy. Black. Dead." This strongly grounded tale hums with the rhythms of schoolyard life and proves Jones to be a powerful storyteller. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Leaving Atlanta: a novel”, de Tayari Jones, publicado pela editora Warner Books, em 2002 e com 272 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Warner Books
Páginas: 272
Ano: 2002
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 0446690899
ISBN13: 9780446690898
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Warner Books apresentam uma variedade notável de narrativas que transitam entre o suspense policial e o drama familiar, passando por histórias de amor e conflitos pessoais intensos. O catálogo sugere uma predileção por tramas que exploram dilemas humanos profundos, muitas vezes ambientados em cenários urbanos contemporâneos ou históricos, com personagens que enfrentam crises morais, segredos e reviravoltas inesperadas. Há tanto obras com ritmo acelerado e tensão crescente quanto outras que privilegiam o desenvolvimento emocional e o retrato íntimo dos protagonistas. Essa diversidade cria um contraste interessante entre narrativas mais voltadas para o mistério e aquelas que exploram relações humanas e transformações pessoais.
