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The Known World Book

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. --Regina MarlerRead More

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  • Product Description

    In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize winner, 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 dicipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caledonia can't uphold the estate's order and chaos ensues. In a daring and ambitious novel, Jones has woven a footnote of history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at slavery in all of its moral complexities. This edition contains P.S. Insights, Interview and more at the end of the book. That includes an interview with the author, Edward P. Jones. It also includes more about this book. And, also a short story from Edward P. Jone's upcoming collection, "All Aunt Hagar's Children"

  • 0060557559
  • 9780060557553
  • Edward P. Jones
  • 30 June 2004
  • Harper Paperbacks
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 432
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