Edward P. Jones Libri

Un'immaginaria comunità della Virginia viene sconvolta dalla morte improvvisa di Henry Townsend, figlio di uno schiavo affrancato, padrone di terre e uomini, in rotta con la famiglia dal momento in cui ha cominciato a impiegare schiavi egli stesso. Le sorti della sua proprietà vengono prese dalla donna che gli è sempre stata al fianco, Caldonia, figlia di un'agiata famiglia, che lo aveva sposato in seguito alla sua conquistata libertà. Ma riuscirà Caldonia, sola, a tenere a freno le forze centrifughe delle sue proprietà? Riuscirà infine a rifarsi una vita, oltre lo spettro di Henry che la tiene prigioniera del ricordo? Il romanzo ha vinto il premio Pulitzer 2004 ed è stato finalista al National Book Award.

Edward P. Jones, a prodigy of the short story, returns to the form that first won him praise in this new collection of stories, All Aunt Hagar's Children. Here he turns an unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them in the city, people who in Jones's masterful hands emerge as fully human and morally complex. With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw behind them and the future uncertain, Jones's cornucopia of characters will haunt readers for years to come.

The nation's capital that serves as the setting for the stories in Edward P. Jones's prizewinning collection, Lost in the City, lies far from the city of historic monuments and national politicians. Jones takes the reader beyond that world into the lives of African American men and women who work against the constant threat of loss to maintain a sense of hope. From "The Girl Who Raised Pigeons" to the well-to-do career woman awakened in the night by a phone call that will take her on a journey back to the past, the characters in these stories forge bonds of community as they struggle against the limits of their city to stave off the loss of family, friends, memories, and, ultimately, themselves. Critically acclaimed upon publication, Lost in the City introduced Jones as an undeniable talent, a writer whose unaffected style is not only evocative and forceful but also filled with insight and poignancy.