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Edward P. Jones

Autor(a) de The Known World

10+ Works 8,434 Membros 183 Críticas 16 Favorited

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Obras por Edward P. Jones

The Known World (2003) 6,848 exemplares
All Aunt Hagar's Children (2006) 848 exemplares
Lost in the City (1992) 677 exemplares
New Stories from the South 2007: The Year's Best (2007) — Editor — 55 exemplares
The World Above 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Black Boy (1945) — Prefácio, algumas edições5,166 exemplares
Notes of a Native Son (1955) — Prefácio, algumas edições1,984 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2005 (2005) — Contribuidor — 693 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2004 (2004) — Contribuidor — 556 exemplares
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994) — Contribuidor — 477 exemplares
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015) — Contribuidor — 282 exemplares
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007) — Contribuidor — 211 exemplares
The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 (2005) — Contribuidor — 188 exemplares
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing (2002) — Contribuidor — 125 exemplares
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Contribuidor — 122 exemplares
Leaving Home: Stories (1997) — Contribuidor — 116 exemplares
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America (1995) — Contribuidor — 91 exemplares
D.C. Noir 2: The Classics (2008) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
Best of the South: From Ten Years of New Stories from the South (1996) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
Best African American Fiction (2009) (2009) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
New Stories from the South 2004: The Year's Best (2004) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1993 (1993) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience (1996) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Modern Fiction About Schoolteaching: An Anthology (1995) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares

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The characters in this book are very accessible and well defined. The white gaze is not present, and the subject of race is a constant identifier. It is easy to see the difficulties many of these characters face and the adaptations necessary for them to make. All of these stories took place in Washington, D.C. or nearby, a city the author knows well.Most of Jones' characters are parts of communities that are there to help and to look out for each other.
 
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suesbooks | 10 outras críticas | Feb 4, 2024 |
If found it hard to get through, despite some striking moments, and some interesting glimpses into the lives of slaves and free black slave-owners. I think the collage-like structure - jumping around between a variety of loosely connected plots and characters - is a promising literary device in theory that Edward Jones doesn't quite master in practice, leaving me uniformly indifferent to all of the characters (and indeed there are so many that it can be hard to follow the story of some of them). Perhaps that's the biggest fault of the book - there's little reason to care about any individual character in narrative that spreads itself thinly among so many.… (mais)
 
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breathslow | 160 outras críticas | Jan 27, 2024 |
This is an adult book of interest to teens,
 
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VillageProject | 160 outras críticas | Jan 25, 2024 |
I have just finished The Known World and I remain puzzled about the story, wondering why I stuck with it to the end.The Known World is a fiction about a fictional place. But it is set in antebellum Virginia. A white plantation owner fathers children by his black concubine. He allows a talented slave in his estate to buy his freedom and the freedom of his family. A freed black buys slaves in his own right. But the free black is still subject to the laws and morays of a slave state. The laws protect the property of the whites ahead of blacks even though they are officially colour neutral. This is what constitutes "the known world" inside The Known World. Then I ask myself, what is unknown about this world. To the whites, the inner lives of the blacks are unknown, or ignored. What is unknown is in the night, beyond the borders of Manchester County, and what the future will bring. The death of the black slave owner is the wheel about which characters and their fate are set in motion. It is a clever device. It unpacks what is not known in the hearts of men. Author Edward P. Jones sneaks in fictional information about the fictional future of Manchester County, but no-one knows that the day is coming when all the slaves will be freed. In many ways, The Known World is a deeply unhappy and pessimistic work. It foreshadows no good for the slaves, no good for women in this society, and no honour for the slave owners. Religion is a crutch and there is little redemption for sinners in this world. Sometimes children escape the clutches of their fate, but more often than not, they do not. The light of day brings us to the obvious conclusions about what is known. It is stark and the evil is unrelenting.… (mais)
 
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MylesKesten | 160 outras críticas | Jan 23, 2024 |

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Obras
10
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26
Membros
8,434
Popularidade
#2,859
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
183
ISBN
81
Línguas
8
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