A Hope in the Unseen

An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Ron Suskind

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Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
04 May 1999

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

The inspiring, true coming-of-age story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair.

In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a bright and ferociously determined honor student

at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.'s most dangerous neighborhoods,

where the dropout rate was well into double digits and just 80 students out of more

than 1,350 boasted an average of B or better. At Ballou, Cedric had almost no friends.

He ate lunch in a classroom most days, plowing through the extra work he asked

for, knowing that he was really competing with kids from other, harder schools. Cedric

Jennings's driving ambition-which was fully supported by his forceful mother-was to

attend a top college.

In September 1995, after years of near superhuman dedication,

he realized that ambition when he began as a freshman at Brown University. But he didn't leave his struggles behind. He found himself unprepared for college- he struggled to master classwork and fit in with the white upper-class students.

Having traveled too far to turn back, Cedric was left to rely on his intelligence and his determination to maintain hope in the unseen-a future of acceptance and reward.

In this

updated edition, A Hope in the Unseen chronicles Cedric's odyssey during his last

two years of high school, follows him through his difficult first year at Brown,

and tells the story of his subsequent successes in college and the world of work.

Eye-opening, sometimes humorous, and often deeply moving,A Hope in the Unseenweaves a crucial new thread into the rich and ongoing narrative of the American experience.

By: Ron Suskind
Imprint: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 283g
ISBN: 9780767901260
ISBN 10: 0767901266
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 04 May 1999
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ron Suskind is the author of The Globe and Mail and New York Times bestsellers The One Percent Doctrine, The Price of Loyalty, and A Hope in the Unseen. From 1993 to 2000 he was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. He currently writes for various national magazines, including The New York Times Magazine and Esquire, and is the senior fellow at Harvard's Center of Ethics. He lives in Harvard Square, MA.

Reviews for A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

"""A beautiful book of a heroic American struggle."" --David Halberstam in USA Today ""[An] extraordinary, formula-shattering book."" --New York Times Book Review ""A story of sheer human grit that should be read by others as example and inspiration."" --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World ""Absolutely gripping. A sort of suspense novel of the human psyche. . . . It's beyond good, it's really extraordinary."" --Walter Kirn, National Public Radio"