Jesmyn Ward

Broschiertes Buch

Men We Reaped

A Memoir

Beschreibung

Recounts the loss of five young men in the author's life to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the misfortune that can follow those who live in poverty, sharing her experiences of living through the dying as she searches through answers in her community.

Autor

Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novels Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, which won the 2011 National Book Award, and Sing, Unburied, Sing, which won the 2017 National Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time and the author of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. From 2008-2010, Ward had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She was the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the 2010-2011 academic year. In 2016, the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award. She lives in Mississippi.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 139mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781608197651
• ISBN-10: 1608197654
• Artikelnr.: 40403502

Rezensionen

A brutal, moving memoir … Anyone who emerges from America's black working-class youth with words as fine as Ward's deserves a hearing