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| Genre/Form: | Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jesmyn Ward |
| ISBN: | 9781608195220 1608195228 9781408827000 140882700X |
| OCLC Number: | 694566457 |
| Awards: | National Book Award, Fiction, 2011. |
| Description: | 261 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Jesmyn Ward. |
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Where the Line Bleeds was an Essence Magazine Book Club selection, a Black Caucus of the ALA Honor Award recipient, and a finalist for both the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. 'Beautifully written ... A powerful depiction of grinding poverty, where somehow amid the deprivation, the flame of filial affection survives and a genuine spirit of community is able to triumph over everything the system and nature can throw at it' Daily Mail 'Masterful... Salvage the Bones has the aura of a classic about it' Washington Post 'A brilliantly pacy adventure-story as the family battles to escape the rising tide. The pages fly past with heart-stopping intensity... Ward writes like a dream. A real dream: uneasy, vivid and deep as the sea' The Times 'The novel's hugeness of heart and fierceness of family grip hold on like Skeetah's pit bull' Oprah Magazine Read more...

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