Evaluation:
Published: 09.05.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays '"A Rock and a Hard Place". Book Review', 1.
Extract

I have just finished the autobiography "A Rock and a Hard Place", by Anthony Godby Johnson, a then fourteen year old boy. This is one of the best school - related books I have read yet. It is a tale of a boy's life from being beaten and sexually abused to finding a new loving family to take care of him, to his discovery of having AIDS, but he does this all in a upbeat, non-self pity tone. …

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