All Aunt Hagar's Children

Informationen zum Autor Edward P. Jones, the New York Times bestselling author, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for The Known World; he also received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004. His first collection of stories, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was short listed for the National Book Award. His second collection, All Aunt Hagar’s Children, was a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award. He has been an instructor of fiction writing at a range of universities, including Princeton. He lives in Washington, D.C. Klappentext Edward P. Jones, a prodigy of the short story, returns to the form that first won him praise in this new collection of stories, All Aunt Hagar's Children. Here he turns an unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them in the city, people who in Jones's masterful hands emerge as fully human and morally complex. With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw behind them and the future uncertain, Jones's cornucopia of characters will haunt readers for years to come. Zusammenfassung Edward P. Jones! a prodigy of the short story! returns to the form that first won him praise in this new collection of stories! All Aunt Hagar's Children. Here he turns an unflinching eye to the men! women! and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them in the city! people who in Jones's masterful hands emerge as fully human and morally complex. With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw behind them and the future uncertain! Jones's cornucopia of characters will haunt readers for years to come.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Edward P Jones, Edward P Jones, Edward P. Jones
• Editore: Harper Collins Usa
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 05.09.2006
• EAN: 9780060853518
• ISBN: 978-0-06-085351-8
• Pagine: 656
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 31 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Ethnic Studies, Short Stories, Family life fiction, Sea stories, United States of America, USA, Literary essays, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Holidays, events and seasonal interest, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: General, FICTION: African American & Black / Women, FICTION: Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, FICTION: Sea Stories, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: LITERATURE, Relating to African American / Black American people, Modern and Contemporary romance, African American Studies / Literature