All Aunt Hagar's Children
Title | All Aunt Hagar's Children PDF eBook |
Author | Edward P. Jones |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2006-08-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0060557567 |
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.
Lost in the City
Title | Lost in the City PDF eBook |
Author | Edward P. Jones |
Publisher | Amistad Press |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780060566289 |
Set in the nation's capital, a collection of stories about African Americans living in Washington, D.C., introduces characters who struggle daily with loss--of family, of friends, of memories, and of themselves. Repritn. 15,000 first printing.
In the Blink of God’s Eye (Fast Fiction)
Title | In the Blink of God’s Eye (Fast Fiction) PDF eBook |
Author | Edward P Jones |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 35 |
Release | 2011-01-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 000742647X |
1901. In Washington, Ruth and Aubrey take in a baby left in a tree.
The Known World
Title | The Known World PDF eBook |
Author | Edward P. Jones |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 437 |
Release | 2009-03-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0061746363 |
From Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caldonia, can't uphold the estate's order, and chaos ensues. Edward P. Jones has woven a footnote of history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at slavery in all its moral complexities. “A masterpiece that deserves a place in the American literary canon.”—Time
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Digital Edition)
Title | The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Digital Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Ayana Mathis |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0385350295 |
The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection: this special eBook edition of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis features exclusive content, including Oprah’s personal notes highlighted within the text, and a reading group guide. The arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family. In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare them for the calamitous difficulty they are sure to face in their later lives, to meet a world that will not love them, a world that will not be kind. Captured here in twelve luminous narrative threads, their lives tell the story of a mother’s monumental courage and the journey of a nation. Beautiful and devastating, Ayana Mathis’s The Twelve Tribes of Hattie is wondrous from first to last—glorious, harrowing, unexpectedly uplifting, and blazing with life. An emotionally transfixing page-turner, a searing portrait of striving in the face of insurmountable adversity, an indelible encounter with the resilience of the human spirit and the driving force of the American dream.
The Evening of the Holiday
Title | The Evening of the Holiday PDF eBook |
Author | Shirley Hazzard |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2004-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780312423261 |
Passionate undercurrents sweep in and out of this eloquent novel about a love affair in a summer countryside in Italy and its inevitable end.
All Aunt Hagar's Children
Title | All Aunt Hagar's Children PDF eBook |
Author | Edward P. Jones |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0061857149 |
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.