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The Price of a Child : A Novel by Lorene Cary is a biography available to read on EtoBox.

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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 double role, in whi

Who reads The Price of a Child : A Novel?

Author

Lorene Cary

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307778482

Category

biography

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.48 / 5 (635 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13