Set in Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War. Outstanding, deeply humanistic, historical novel from African-American novelist Edward Paul Jones (1950 -), well worthy winner of the Pulitzer (2004) and the International Dublin Literary Award (2005). BRAND NEW Copy First Edition, First Printing. Regina Marler About the Author:īook Description Paperback. 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. 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. After his death, his slaves wonder if Caldonia will free them. 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. 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. Jones's debut novel, The Known World, is a masterpiece of overlapping plot lines, time shifts, and heartbreaking details of life under slavery. Set in Manchester County, Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War began, Edward P.
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