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Black Ice By Lorene Cary
Title: Black Ice By Lorene Cary
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 673 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Black Ice By Lorene Cary
Book Description
In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was
transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in
New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a "boot camp" for future
American leaders. Like any good student, she was determined to succeed. But Cary was
also determined to succeed without selling out. This wonderfully frank and perceptive
memoir describes the perils and ambiguities of that …showed first 75 words of 673 total…
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the shame of wanting to let go. In the end Cary did end up with want she had come to St.
Paul’s for. She just got it without knowing it at the time. She got her credentials,
self-confidence, and power by making it through. Along with these things Cary gained
life experiences that were irreplaceable. In my opinion she came out of St. Paul’s with
more than she ever thought she would.
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