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The known world /

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The known world /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The known world // Edward P. Jones.
Author:	Jones, Edward P.
Published:	New York :Amistad, : 2004, c2003.,
[NT 15000922]:	1st Amistad pbk. ed.
Description:	388, 28 p. ;21 cm.;
Notes:	"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2003 by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers."
基督教聖經之智慧書導讀 :	Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation -- as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation: slaves take to escaping under the cover of night, and families who had once found love beneath the weight of slavery begin to betray one another. Beyond the Townsend estate, the known world also unravels: low-paid white patrollers stand watch as slave "speculators" sell free black people into slavery, and rumors of slave rebellions set white families against slaves who have served them for years. An ambitious, luminously written novel that ranges seamlessly between the past and future and back again to the present, The Known World weaves together the lives of freed and enslaved blacks, whites, and Indians -- and allows all of us a deeper understanding of the enduring multidimensional world created by the institution of slavery.
Subject:	African American plantation owners - Fiction. -
Subject:	Virginia - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 -
ISBN:	0060557540 (acid-free paper)

The known world /
Jones, Edward P.

The known world /Edward P. Jones. - 1st Amistad pbk. ed. - New York :Amistad,2004, c2003. - 388, 28 p. ;21 cm.

"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2003 by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers."

Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation -- as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation: slaves take to escaping under the cover of night, and families who had once found love beneath the weight of slavery begin to betray one another. Beyond the Townsend estate, the known world also unravels: low-paid white patrollers stand watch as slave "speculators" sell free black people into slavery, and rumors of slave rebellions set white families against slaves who have served them for years. An ambitious, luminously written novel that ranges seamlessly between the past and future and back again to the present, The Known World weaves together the lives of freed and enslaved blacks, whites, and Indians -- and allows all of us a deeper understanding of the enduring multidimensional world created by the institution of slavery.

ISBN: 0060557540 (acid-free paper)Subjects--Topical Terms:

399389
African American plantation owners
--Fiction.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

247498
Virginia
--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

LC Class. No.: PS3560.O4813 / K58 2004

The known world /
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900 $c 到館:2009/04/15 $d 編目:2008/04/15