A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy's Triumphant Story - Softcover

Anthony Godby Johnson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751509418 ISBN 13: 9780751509410

Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks, 1995

Synopsis

A teenager who, until he was eleven years old, had been the victim of horrific physical and sexual abuse on the part of his parents, describes his escape from torment, his diagnosis with AIDS, and his continuing battle for survival. Reprint.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

d boy's powerful, eloquent, and heartening memoir: how he survived abusive parents, made school and the New York streets his refuge, and finally found a genuine family--only to be confronted with the ultimate challenge of AIDS. Like The Diary of Anne Frank, this is a young person's personal account of rising above the worst terrors of a troubled time. Line drawings.

About the Author:

Producer, magician, writer, puppeteer, minister, husband, father, Fred Rogers started out in children's television thirty years ago. The direction he trailblazed was the "creation of television programming that spoke, with respect, to the concerns of early childhood, not as adults see it but as children feel it."

He has received virtually every major award in the television industry for work in his field, and dozens of others from special-interest groups.

Fred Rogers lives in Pennsylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0751509418
• ISBN 13: 9780751509410
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240