Edward P Jones
Edward P. Jones won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was nominated for the National Book Award for his debut collection of stories, Lost in the City and received the Pulitzer Prize for The Known World. He lives in Virginia, USA.
Edward P. Jones won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was nominated for the National Book Award for his debut collection of stories, Lost in the City and received the Pulitzer Prize for The Known World. He lives in Virginia, USA. See less
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Edward P Jones book reviews
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All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
Hagar's Children
In his highly-acclaimed volume of 14 stories, "All Aunt Hagar's Children", Edward P. Jones draws portraits of African Americans who have migrated from the South to Washington D.C. The stories are set ... Read More
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Lost in the City
Superb view of the "other Washington"
by Lee F, Dec 13, 2012
When I read The Known World, Edward P. Jones' novel about black slaveowners, I was impressed - and even more so when it turned out he hadn't done reams of research for it. He'd imagined the world.. ... Read More
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The Known World
The Peculiar Institution
by rejoyce, Sep 3, 2007
Edward P. Jones' novel The Known World complicates the reader's knowledge of the "peculiar institution" of slavery by focusing in part upon the relationship between black slaveowners and their slaves ... Read More
