现货Words Unspoken, Things Unseen[9781499004571]

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作者Rodríguez, Joe

出版社Xlibris Us

ISBN9781499004571

出版时间2014-05

装帧平装

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页数170页

正文语种英语

上书时间2023-09-26

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商品描述: A downtown homeless shelter, the Settlement, is targeted for demolition during the Great Recession. In its place, the city wants to build a sports complex. Reverend Stephen Bentham, the Settlement's founder and director, draws on the loyalty of his assistant, the house physician, and a visiting archeology professor to save the hundred beds. A school-age boy also joins the effort. Fending off the bulldozers tests each character. Their own troubled histories compel them to help. One of the toughest challenges is burying the house physician when he succumbs during the fight. Loyalty to one's faith or to progress or to honor itself are grand phrases. The actual work at a shelter is hard and tedious, like growing a garden out of concrete.