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The known world / Edward P. Jones.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Amistad, ©2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: 388 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0060557540
  • 9780060557546
  • 0060557559
  • 9780060557553
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 21
LOC classification:
  • PS3560.O4813 K58 2003
Other classification:
  • 18.06
  • HU 9800
Online resources:
Contents:
The known world (novel) -- P.S.: An interview with Edward P Jones -- "The known world" dramatis personae -- "The girl who raised pigeons" (short story.).
Awards:
  • Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2004.
Summary: When a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--dies, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion and corrupt underpaid patrollers who enable free black people to be sold into slavery.
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The known world (novel) -- P.S.: An interview with Edward P Jones -- "The known world" dramatis personae -- "The girl who raised pigeons" (short story.).

When a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--dies, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion and corrupt underpaid patrollers who enable free black people to be sold into slavery.

Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2004.

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