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Post by alum on Jul 17, 2024 12:03:48 GMT -5
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jul 17, 2024 12:22:39 GMT -5
Has anyone read Mr Jones’s book and can provide some feedback?
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Post by newfieguy74 on Jul 17, 2024 12:30:18 GMT -5
I have read it, and it is one of the most brilliant novels I have ever read. It is the story, which apparently has some factual basis, of black people who owned slaves. I have also read a number of his short stories, which are equally great.
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Post by alum on Jul 17, 2024 12:33:23 GMT -5
Has anyone read Mr Jones’s book and can provide some feedback? I have owned it forever and never got around to reading it. THis is the impetus to read it.
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Post by newfieguy74 on Jul 17, 2024 12:44:15 GMT -5
Jones' book of short stories, All Aunt Hagar's Children, is number 70 on the list. He is one of America's great living writers. IIRC when he was at HC his writing journey was mentored by the estimable Maurice Geracht of the English Dept.
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Post by Chu Chu on Jul 17, 2024 13:26:35 GMT -5
I have read it, and it is one of the most brilliant novels I have ever read. It is the story, which apparently has some factual basis, of black people who owned slaves. I have also read a number of his short stories, which are equally great. Me too, and I agree!
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Post by lou on Jul 17, 2024 13:31:23 GMT -5
I've read it and enjoyed it.
From the Times...
NYT sent a survey to hundreds of literary luminaries, asking them to name the 10 best books published since Jan. 1, 2000.
Stephen King took part. So did Bonnie Garmus, Claudia Rankine, James Patterson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Elin Hilderbrand, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Roxane Gay, Marlon James, Sarah MacLean, Min Jin Lee, Jonathan Lethem and Jenna Bush Hager, to name just a few
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