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All Aunt Hagar's Children |
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by Edward P. Jones, 0060557567
ISBN: 0060557567
Pub. Date: August 2006
ISBN-13: 9780060557560
Format: Hardcover, pp. 399
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Sales Rank: 40
List Price: $25.95
BBP Price: $19.46 Save 25% |
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In fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have been published in
The New Yorker, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known
World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever
Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the
City, 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. All Aunt Hagar's Children 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.
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.
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.
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