The Resource The known world, Edward P. Jones
The known world, Edward P. Jones
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The item The known world, Edward P. Jones represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The known world, Edward P. Jones represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 388 pages
- Isbn
- 9780060557546
- Label
- The known world
- Title
- The known world
- Statement of responsibility
- Edward P. Jones
- Subject
-
- Slaves -- Fiction
- trueAfrican American plantation owners
- African American plantation owners -- Fiction
- trueAfrican American slaveholders
- African American slaveholders -- Fiction
- trueAfrican Americans
- trueAmerican people
- trueEnslaved people
- trueFreed people
- trueFreedom seekers
- trueHusband and wife
- trueMen
- trueMen with disfigurements
- trueNorth American people
- truePeople with disfigurements
- truePlantation life
- Plantation life -- Fiction
- trueSheriffs
- trueSlavery
- Slavery -- Fiction
- Virginia -- Fiction
- trueVirginia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- trueWomen with disabilities
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Award
-
- ALA Notable Book, 2004.
- BCALA Literary Award for First Novelist, 2004.
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2003.
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2005.
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 2003.
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2004.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 119898
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jones, Edward P
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3560.O4813
- LC item number
- K58 2003
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African American plantation owners
- African American slaveholders
- Plantation life
- Virginia
- Slavery
- Slaves
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The known world, Edward P. Jones
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 388 pages
- Isbn
- 9780060557546
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2003040389
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- 51519698
- 423389
- Label
- The known world, Edward P. Jones
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 388 pages
- Isbn
- 9780060557546
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2003040389
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- 51519698
- 423389
Subject
- Slaves -- Fiction
- trueAfrican American plantation owners
- African American plantation owners -- Fiction
- trueAfrican American slaveholders
- African American slaveholders -- Fiction
- trueAfrican Americans
- trueAmerican people
- trueEnslaved people
- trueFreed people
- trueFreedom seekers
- trueHusband and wife
- trueMen
- trueMen with disfigurements
- trueNorth American people
- truePeople with disfigurements
- truePlantation life
- Plantation life -- Fiction
- trueSheriffs
- trueSlavery
- Slavery -- Fiction
- Virginia -- Fiction
- trueVirginia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- trueWomen with disabilities
Genre
Included in
- trueALA Notable Books - Fiction: 2004
- trueInternational Dublin Literary Award
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2003
- trueBCALA Literary Award: First Novelist Category
- truePulitzer Prize: Fiction
- trueNational Book Critics Circle Award: Fiction
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
- Award
- ALA Notable Book, 2004.
- Award
- BCALA Literary Award for First Novelist, 2004.
- Award
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2003.
- Award
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2005.
- Award
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 2003.
- Award
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2004.
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