The known world / Edward P. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Edward P.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American plantation owners--Fiction.

African American plantation owners.

African American slaveholders--Fiction.

African American slaveholders.

Plantation life--Fiction.

Plantation life.

Slavery--Fiction.

Slavery.

Enslaved persons--Fiction.

Enslaved persons.

Historical fiction.

Virginia--Fiction.

Virginia.

Plantations--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

388 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Amistad, 2004.

Summary:

"Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor - William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation - as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation: slaves take to escaping under the cover of night, and families who had once found love beneath the weight of slavery begin to betray one another. Beyond the Townsend estate, the known world also unravels: low-paid white patrollers stand watch as slave "speculators" sell free black people into slavery, and rumors of slave rebellions set white families against slaves who have served them for years."--Jacket.

Notes:

Pulitzer Prize, 2004.

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2004.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Fiction, Winner, 2004

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - First Novelist, Winner, 2004

ISBN:

9780060557553

0060557559

0060557540

9780060557546

OCLC:

464922263

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