false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166485729m/11751.jpg 11751 9 In fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have been published in <i>The New Yorker</i>, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>The Known World</i> shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever. <br> <br> Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, <i>Lost in the City</i>, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather its ordinary citizens. <i>All Aunt Hagar's Children</i> turns an unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them further north, people who in Jones's masterful hands emerge as fully human and morally complex, whether they are country folk used to getting up with the chickens or people with centuries of education behind them. <br> <br> In the title story, in which Jones employs the first-person rhythms of a classic detective story, a Korean War veteran investigates the death of a family friend whose sorry destiny seems inextricable from his mother's own violent Southern childhood. In "In the Blink of God's Eye" and "Tapestry," newly married couples leave behind the familiarity of rural life to pursue lives of urban promise, only to be challenged and disappointed. <br> <br> With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw away and the future uncertain, Jones's cornucopia of characters will haunt readers for years to come. 258132 1 9 2006 All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories total:467|5:116|4:181|3:124|2:31|1:15| 467 1753 911 89 1 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 06 21:55:05 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 06 21:55:08 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 30 12:53:27 -0800 2007 Wed Jun 11 10:47:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:47:50 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:47:50 -0800 2009 Pulitzer Prize?winning author Edward P. Jones (The Known World, **** Nov/Dec 2003) once again unfurls his extraordinary literary talent on the world. Though a few reviewers admit he makes "occasional missteps" (New York Times), the overall effect of these poignant, demanding, and nonlinear...

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A Kind Of Freedom
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