Edward P. Jones

Broschiertes Buch

The Known World

Beschreibung

Mit einem epischen Roman über die Auswüchse der Sklaverei in den USA errang Edward P. Jones in diesem Frühjahr den Pulitzer Preis 2004. Im Mittelpunkt steht ein freier schwarzer Farmer und sein Kampf um Unabhängigkeit.

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amistad
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 205mm x 137mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9780060557553
• ISBN-10: 0060557559
• Artikelnr.: 12697403

Rezensionen

"Jones has written a book of tremendous moral intricacy." The New Yorker