Edward P Jones
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Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor--William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation as well as his own slaves. When he dies his widow Caldonia succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart.
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In these fourteen stories, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World explores the complexities of Black American lives in the nation's capital. Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the City, bestselling author Edward P. Jones has filled this collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather its ordinary citizens. All Aunt Hagar's...
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"Original and arresting….[Jones's] stories will touch chords of empathy and recognition in all readers."
-Washington Post
"These 14 stories of African-American life…affirm humanity as only good literature can."
-Los Angeles Times
A magnificent collection of short fiction focusing on the lives of African-American men and women in Washington, D.C., Lost in the City is the book that first brought author Edward P. Jones to national attention....
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In this anthology, uncover a century of dark mystery stories set in America's mighty capital.
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of city-based noir anthologies launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city in the book. The original D.C. Noir, a groundbreaking collection of new fiction by sixteen different writers, displayed the curatorial prowess...
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Das Leben des Sklaven Moses ist hart. Das ändert sich auch nicht, als sein Herr Henry Townsend, ein ehemaliger Sklave, der jedoch freigekauft wurde, stirbt. Schwere Misshandlungen und Mangelernährung sind noch immer an der Tagesordnung, und weiter arbeitet Moses 14 Stunden am Tag. Wenn er endlich zur Ruhe kommen kann, isst er die Erde des Ackers, um dessen Stärken und Schwächen zu schmecken. Dann bricht auf der Farm auf einmal Chaos aus – und...
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James Baldwin was among the most eloquent writers in mid-20th-century America to deal with black-white relations. His first published essays on the subject were initially collected in this penetrating and impassioned book, Held up to view are the failure of the "protest novel" from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Richard Wright; the falseness of the 1954 movie Carmen Jones, in which blacks play their roles as whites; the Harlem ghetto with its many churches...
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2025
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xix, 395 pages ; 20 cm.
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"The prestigious annual story anthology, featuring prize-winning stories by a diverse and exciting array of writers. Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Edward P. Jones has brought his own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated...
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2015.
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xxi, 723 pages ; 24 cm.
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Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time -- Source other than Library of Congress.
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A lot can happen on the way from one place to another, especially when an overnight flight makes for an unexpected romantic encounter between strangers seated together; a trucker finds life beyond the ranch where he grew up; and a bored Midwestern housewife tries to escape Kansas City. This anthology of tales about people in transit features Stuart Dybek's "Pet Milk", read by Keith Szarabajka; Martha Gellhorn's "Miami-New York", read by Joanna Gleason;...




