I t was this book that allowed Hinton to attend the University Of Tulsa. ... Both books were selected as Honor Books in the Chicago Tribune Book World's Children's Spring Book Festival. ... The pace of the book is the main reason it won so many awards. ... Hinton uses a poem by Robert Frost and weaves it throughout the plot of the book. ... Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1984. ...
In 1975 he immigrated to Canada, working in a bank to support himself while studying English and philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he received a second bachelor's degree in 1984. ... It again reached the shortlist for the Booker Prize and received various awards. ... Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... A Fine Balance, which had just received the Commonwealth Writers...
In 1975 he immigrated to Canada, working in a bank to support himself while studying English and philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he received a second bachelor's degree in 1984. ... It again reached the shortlist for the Booker Prize and received various awards. ... Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... A Fine Balance, which had just received the Commonwealth Writers...
