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All Aunt Hagar's Children

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By Edward P. Jones

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| Hardcover | 9780060557560

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In fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have been published in The New Yorker, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever

Returning to the city that inspired his firstContinue

In fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have been published in The New Yorker, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever

Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather its ordinary citizens. All Aunt Hagar's Children turns an unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them further north, people who in Jones's masterful hands, emerge as fully human and morally complex, whether they are country folk used to getting up with the chickens or people with centuries of education behind them.

In the title story, in which Jones employs the first-person rhythms of a classic detective story, a Korean War veteran investigates the death of a family friend whose sorry destiny seems inextricable from his mother's own violent Southern childhood. In "In the Blink of God's Eye" and "Tapestry" newly married couples leave behind the familiarity of rural life to pursue lives of urban promise only to be challenged and disappointed.

With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw away and the future uncertain, Jones's cornucopia of characters will haunt readers for years to come.

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  • All Aunt Hagar's Children By Edward P. Jones

    Somewhere in Edward P. Jones' apartment, mixed in among his collections of American stamps and thimble-sized Japanese netsuke figurines, is a Pulitzer Prize for his 2003 debut novel, The Known World. The Washington, D.C., native moved just north of G ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Bookreporter.com - ALL AUNT HAGAR'S CHILDREN: Stories by Edward P. Jones

    Following the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Known World , Edward P. Jones has expertly crafted a collection of fourteen short stories titled All Aunt Hagar's Children. From the onset, this masterpiece brilliantly weaves tales fit for man, woman and chil ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Thu, 2 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 416 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0060557567
  • ISBN-13: 9780060557560
  • Publisher: Amistad
  • Pub date: Sep 01, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1032 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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