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Stealing Home by Sharon Robinson (1996, Hardcover)
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Author: Sharon Robinson
Publisher: Harpercollins
Publication Date: 1996-06-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 006017191X
ISBN-13: 9780060171919
Product ID: EPID19555
Description: An account of the life of Jackie Robinson and his family, written by his daughter, who talks about the responsibilities of being an African-American in the spotlight in the 1950s. She discusses Jackie's work for the civil rights movement...
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| Synopsis An account of the life of Jackie Robinson and his family, written by his daughter, who talks about the responsibilities of being an African-American in the spotlight in the 1950s. She discusses Jackie's work for the civil rights movement, her brother's heroin addiction and the pressures of being "Jackie Jr.," and her own loss of identity as she left her father's home for her first husband's. More than a personal memoir, it is a portrait of a family at a particular place in a particular time, both influenced by and an influence on American history.
Publisher's Note In so many ways, Sharon Robinson's childhood in the 1950s was typical for the Connecticut suburb where she grew up -- she lived in a beautiful home, went on shopping trips to New York to buy expensive party dresses, joined exclusive social clubs, even had a pony. However, in at least one important respect, her life was utterly extraordinary: Her father was the great Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color barrier in baseball. Stealing Homeis her story of growing up in the shadow of a hero, and it offers a remarkable portrait of an African-American family who embodied the American Dream of the 1950s. This also is a story of a man who changed the world, and of the deeply complex reality beneath the superficial perfection of the family immortalized in the pages of Lifemagazine. Sharon Robinson reveals how even the Robinsons weren't able to buy a house in the exclusive suburbs of Connecticut without the intervention of white friends, and the often painful alienation of living in two worlds, black and white. Candid and loving, Robinson writes of her father's tireless work for civil rights, as well as his seemingly contradictory political associations and his eventual disillusionment with a system that used him for its own purposes. She also describes the anguish of her older brother, struggling under the weight of being "Jackie, Jr.," who sought escape first in the army, then in heroin. And finally, she tells her own story: how, like so many women of her generation, she left her father's home for her new husband's, only to find that somewhere along the way she lost her own identity. Moving and dramatic, Stealing Hometraces Sharon Robinson's search for success on her own terms, telling the story of a family who embodied the struggles and experiences of a generation. Industry Reviews Watkins | See an error? Submit a change request | ||||||||||||||||
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