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| Genre/Form: | Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Edward P Jones |
| ISBN: | 9780060557546 0060557540 9780060557553 0060557559 9780061159176 0061159174 |
| OCLC Number: | 71356150 |
| Awards: | Winner of International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2005. |
| Description: | 388, 28 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Edward P. Jones. |
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Abstract:
When a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--dies, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion and corrupt underpaid patrollers who enable free black people to be sold into slavery.
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"A masterpiece that deserves a place in the American literary canon."--Time magazine
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