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Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.
Van Pelt Library PS3623.A7323 S36 2012
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Ward Bois 1
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ward, Jesmyn, author.
- Series:
- Ward, Jesmyn. Bois Sauvage ; 1.
- [Bois Sauvage]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gulf Coast (Miss.)--Fiction.
- Gulf Coast (Miss.).
- Mississippi.
- Mississippi--Gulf Coast.
- African American children--Fiction.
- African American children.
- African American teenage girls--Fiction.
- African American teenage girls.
- Siblings--Fiction.
- Siblings.
- Motherless families--Fiction.
- Motherless families.
- African American families--Mississippi--Fiction.
- African American families.
- Rural poor--Mississippi--Fiction.
- Rural poor.
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Fiction.
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
- Book clubs (Discussion groups)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Book clubs (Discussion groups).
- Genre:
- Novels
- Fiction
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- novels.
- Physical Description:
- 271 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.
- Summary:
- Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
- Contents:
- The first day : birth in a bare-bulb place
- The second day : hidden eggs
- The third day : sickness in the dirt
- The fourth day : worth stealing
- The fifth day : salvage the bones
- The sixth day : a steady hand
- The seventh day : game dogs and game men
- The eighth day : make them know
- The ninth day : hurricane eclipse
- The tenth day : in the endless eye
- The eleventh day : Katrina
- The twelfth day : alive.
- Notes:
- National Book Award Winner for Fiction, 2011
- Q & A with Jesmyn Ward by Elizabeth Hoover originally appeared on the Paris Review Daily on August 30, 2011. Reprinted by permission of the Paris Review.
- Athenaeum copy includes reading group guide.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the bones.
- ISBN:
- 9781608196265
- 1608196267
- 9781408854082
- 1408854082
- 9781608195220
- 1608195228
- OCLC:
- 841165185
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