The Help

De: Kathryn Stockett

Narrado por: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her 17th white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another.

This edition now includes the afterword "Too Little, Too Late—Kathryn Stockett in Her Own Words", as read by the author.

Bonus Audio: Hear an exclusive interview with Kathryn Stockett.©2009 Kathryn Stockett, Cover Art: (c) 2011 DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC (P)2009 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“The two principal maid characters...leap off the page in all their warm, three dimensional glory...[A] winning novel.” (The New York Times)

“This could be one of the most important pieces of fiction since To Kill a Mockingbird…If you read only one book...let this be it.” (NPR.org)

“A beautiful portrait of a fragmenting world.” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Fantastic!

The narration makes the story come alive in a really special way. The story itself is enchanting, compelling, deep, and yet lively and light hearted. I recommend this highly.

Amazing

This book was funny,heartbreaking,empowering,thought-provoking, and frustrating all at the same time. I could hardly put my iPod down! All of the characters were rich and wonderfully written. The narraters were amazing and spoke beautifully. I recommend this book to anyone who likes to be truly moved by their reading experiences.

Terrific Narration

One of the best books I've listened to. The narration makes you feel like you're "watching" a play. Wonderful story and well written. Highly recommend it.

Wonderful....Wonderful.....Wonderful.....

I watched the movie first (books are usually always better and tend to ruin the movie for me if I read them first), and really enjoyed it. So I decided to listen to the book. OMG....I know now that if I had listened to the book first, there would have been no help for the movie. I just loved this book...and the fact that Octavia Spencer plays the role of Millie in the movie and is the voice of Millie in the book was just and extra added bonus. If you get a chance please listen to this book....It is sad, funny, and enlightening all rolled into one.

The Help is the best audio book

The Help is one of the first audio books I listened to. It's also still the best one of all. I love that there are 3 narrators. I could listen to The Help over and over again

The Help

Wow! Such a great and thoroughly entertaining book!! I picked it on a whim and am so glad I did! From beginning to end its a great listen you feel as if you are right there with the characters! I loved the narrators they read the characters so well :) I could not stop listening to the book it was engrossing. I will recommend this book to friends. The ONLY downside is the book had to end I would love for a part 2 although the author tied the ending in well I just did not want to stop :)

Loved, loved, loved it!

Listening to this book was the best way. I hated for it to be over. Well written, wry, engaging story.

A really GREAT listen!

I have found that I really love stories told in multiple voices, and this one is a perfect example of why that style works.

The book's summary didn't entice me, but the rave reviews did, although, as a born-and-bred Southerner, I was still a little dubious - I thought it might be insulting, self-righteous or just silly. However, I found the story engaging and plausible, and the characters quite likable. And the readers! Their voices were warm and caring, feisty and funny, heartbreaking and sincere.

To a "Grits" (girl raised in the South) like me, the attitudes depicted rang true. I remember when my grandmother had a toilet installed in her basement for her maid, whom she really "loved", but whose wastes she honestly believed might be hazardous to her health! These beliefs were so deeply ingrained through generations, I'm just glad that there were a few intelligent, caring and BRAVE people down here who were willing to take the risks that these women took. And now we have a black president - AND racial profiling all at the same time - at least that shows SOME progress, even though racism is FAR from over!

Warning: you will make friends with the characters

I saw the movie and I have the paper version of the book, but listening to the audiobook is by far the best experience. The voice work on this audiobook is superb!

I'm not an expert on Jackson, Mississippi accents, but listening to this brilliant cast deliver the book in it's true intonation made me feel like I met these characters in person. They told me a great story - we had some laughs, I nodded a lot, I tilted my head a lot in sympathy and I covered my mouth in shock of some of the preposterous incidents they experienced. The story was so good that they were answering my questions as I was thinking them.

At the end, we had to part ways and I was sad that I will not get to talk to them again.

Best audiobook I've ever heard

I cried when this book ended, because I wasn't going to get to hear anymore about the lives of the amazing characters, whom I'd grown to feel like I knew and loved. The story was amazingly written, sad, hopeful, inspiring, and humbling. The actors who portrayed the women in the book were fantastic, and I feel lucky that I listened to this book, rather than read it in print, because I really think something magical would have been lost without being able to hear the voices of the women. I still miss this story, weeks after finishing it--it was one of the most moving books I've read to date. Do not hesitate to download this book!