Opis: The Known World - Edward P. Jones

Set in Manchester County, Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War began, Edward P. Jones`s debut novel, The Known World, is a masterpiece of overlapping plot lines, time shifts, and heartbreaking details of life under slavery. Caldonia Townsend is an educated black slaveowner, the widow of a well-loved young farmer named Henry, whose parents had bought their own freedom, and then freed their son, only to watch him buy himself a slave as soon as he had saved enough money. Although a fair and gentle master by the standards of the day, Henry Townsend had learned from former master about the proper distance to keep from one`s property. After his death, his slaves wonder if Caldonia will free them. When she fails to do so, but instead breaches the code that keeps them separate from her, a little piece of Manchester County begins to unravel. Impossible to rush through, The Known World is a complex, beautifully written novel with a large cast of characters, rewarding the patient reader with unexpected connections, some reaching into the present day.

Szczegóły: The Known World - Edward P. Jones

Tytuł: The Known World
Autor: Edward P. Jones
Wydawnictwo: HarperCollins
Kod paskowy: 9780007195305
ISBN: 0007195303
Rok wydania: 2006
Ilość stron: 388
Format: 13x20 cm
Oprawa: oprawa broszurowa
Waga: 0.269 kg

Recenzje: The Known World - Edward P. Jones