Lost in the City - 20th anniversary edition
The nation's capital that serves as the setting for the stories in Edward P. Jones's prizewinning collection, Lost in the City, lies far from the city of historic monuments and national politicians. Jones takes the reader beyond that world into the complicated lives of African American men, women, and even children, such as the girl set to begin elementary school in The First Day, who work against the constant threat of loss to maintain a sense of hope. From The Girl Who Raised Pigeons to the well-to-do career woman awakened in the night by a phone call that will take her on a journey back to the past, the characters in these stories forge bo…
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- ISBN: 978-0-06-219321-6
- EAN: 9780062193216
- Produktnummer: 19410069
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Gattung: Stories
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.7 cm x D3.0 cm 224 g
- Gewicht: 224
Über den 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.
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