Description: The Known World by Edward P. Jones 2003 ~ 1st Edition First Printing w/$24.95 on DJ He won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for this book & National Book Critics Circle Award & The Dublin IMPAC Award Amistad, 2003. VG++, minor surface flaws, edge wear. Clean, bright and tight. A solid quality collectible copy. He won both the Pen/Hemingway Award and the Lannan Foundation Grant for his first book, Lost in the City, a collection of short stories on the African American working class of the 20th century Washington, D.C. It was also shortlisted for the National Book Award. In 2005 Jones was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. His second book, The Known World, is a richly imagined novel set before the Civil War in Virginia. It examines issues regarding the ownership of black slaves by free black people as well as by whites. A book with many points of view, The Known World paints an enormous canvas thick with personalities and situations that show how slavery destroys but can also be transcended. It won the National Book Award in 2004 and subsequently won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Price: 31.96 USD
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Binding: Hardcover w/Jacket
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author: Edward P. Jones
Region: North America
Publisher: Amistad
Topic: Novels
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 2003
Original/Facsimile: Original
