Edward P. Jones
Autor(a) de The Known World
About the Author
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Obras por Edward P. Jones
Old Boys, Old Girls [short fiction] 1 exemplar
A Rich Man [short fiction] 1 exemplar
A New Man [short fiction] 1 exemplar
Hue and Cry: Stories 1 exemplar
The World Above 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contribuidor — 495 exemplares
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introdução — 376 exemplares
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contribuidor — 339 exemplares
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Contribuidor — 109 exemplares
Who’s Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers (2009) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
Best of the South: From Ten Years of New Stories from the South (1996) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing (2011) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience (1996) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Jones, Edward Paul
- Data de nascimento
- 1950-10-05
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Locais de residência
- Washington, D.C., USA
Arlington, Virginia, USA - Educação
- College of the Holy Cross
University of Virginia - Organizações
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Lannan Literary Award (Fiction, 1994, 2003)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 2005) - Agente
- Eric Simonoff
Membros
Críticas
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories por Edward P. Jones
Advanced Reading Copy
To be honest, I was reading this in bits and pieces, which probably didnt help things, but there also wasnt anything that made me want to sit down and read whole chunks in one go either. Was annoyed with the timeline jumping in and out in the middle of the paragraph (present, present, present, something he did 20 years ago, which affects why he does this 5 years from now, present, present).......dont really care....
Narra la historia de Henry Townsend, un granjero negro y antiguo esclavo que cae bajo la tutela de William Robbins, el hombre más poderoso del condado de Manchester, Virginia. Asegurándose de nunca eludir la ley, Townsend maneja sus asuntos con una disciplina inusual.Pero cuando la muerte lo toma inesperadamente, su viuda, Caldonia, no puede mantener el orden de la herencia y se produce el caos. Jones ha entretejido una nota al pie de la historia en una epopeya que da una mirada inquebrantable a la esclavitud en todas sus complejidades morales.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Also by
- 26
- Membros
- 8,322
- Popularidade
- #2,899
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 179
- ISBN
- 81
- Línguas
- 8
- Marcado como favorito
- 16
- Pedras de toque
- 295
