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From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Known World

“Original and arresting….[Jones’s] stories will touch chords of empathy and recognition in all readers.”
—Washington Post

 “These 14 stories of African-American life…affirm humanity as only good literature can.”
 —Los Angeles Times

A magnificent collection of short fiction focusing on the lives of African-American men and women in Washington, D.C., Lost in the City is the book that first brought author Edward P. Jones to national attention. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and numerous other honors for his novel The Known World, Jones made his literary debut with these powerful tales of ordinary people who live in the shadows in this metropolis of great monuments and rich history. Lost in the City received the Pen/Hemingway Awar

Lost in the City 20th Anniversary Edition

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      Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 16/10/2012
      ISBN13: 9780062193216, 978-0062193216
      ISBN10: 006219321X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Known World

      “Original and arresting….[Jones’s] stories will touch chords of empathy and recognition in all readers.”
      —Washington Post

       “These 14 stories of African-American life…affirm humanity as only good literature can.”
       —Los Angeles Times

      A magnificent collection of short fiction focusing on the lives of African-American men and women in Washington, D.C., Lost in the City is the book that first brought author Edward P. Jones to national attention. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and numerous other honors for his novel The Known World, Jones made his literary debut with these powerful tales of ordinary people who live in the shadows in this metropolis of great monuments and rich history. Lost in the City received the Pen/Hemingway Awar

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