The Residue Years - from Pulitzer prize-winner Mitchell S. Jackson

Zusatztext Mitchell S Jackson's traumatic debut novel is written in a heightened, lyrical prose style inspired by the local vernacular. He brings to his narrative not just first-hand experience, but a profound compassion for the deadbeat dads, neglectful mothers, pimps, whores and dealers whose chaotic, intersecting lives form the basis of the story Informationen zum Autor Mitchell S. Jackson was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He holds a masters in writing from Portland State University and an MFA from New York University. Jackson has received a Whiting Award and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. The Residue Years was also a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and the Hurston Wright Legacy Award. Jackson has been awarded fellowships from TED, the Lannan Foundation and the Centre for Fiction. He teaches writing at NYU and Columbia. Klappentext 'Powerful . . . full of impossible hope . . . There is warmth and wit and a hard-won wisdom' Roxane Gay, New York Times Book Review Vorwort 'Powerful . . . full of impossible hope . . . There is warmth and wit and a hard-won wisdom' Roxane Gay, New York Times Book Review Zusammenfassung 'Powerful . . . full of impossible hope . . . There is warmth and wit and a hard-won wisdom' Roxane Gay, New York Times Book Review

Product details

• Authors: Mitchell S Jackson, Mitchell S. Jackson, Jackson Mitchell S.
• Assisted by: Layne Priscilla (Translation)
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780349701370
• ISBN: 978-0-349-70137-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 194 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, Family & relationships, Modern and contemporary fiction, FICTION / African American & Black / Urban & Street Lit, FICTION / African American & Black / General