Tag: Edward Jones
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The Sanity of Madness in Edward P. Jones’ ‘The Known World’
“In those first days after Henry bought Alice, the patrollers would haul her back to Henry’s plantation, waking him and Caldonia …Come down here and find out about your property’…Henry would come down [and help] …Alice up… [then] sprawled …in the dirt after [the patrollers] had run her back…The patrollers would…ride away [decrying] among themselves…This…
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Lost in the World of Edward P. Jones
Edward P. Jones’s namesake story “Lost in the City,” in his collection of short stories, Lost in the City, could aptly be titled, “Lost in America.”