The known world
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The known world
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The work The known world represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Label
- The known world
- Statement of responsibility
- Edward P. Jones
- Subject
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- Slaves
- trueFreed people
- trueFreed slaves
- trueFreedom seekers
- Fugitive slaves
- Historical fiction
- trueHusband and wife
- trueMen
- trueMen with disfigurements
- trueNorth American people
- truePeople with disfigurements
- Plantation life
- truePlantation life
- Plantation life -- Fiction
- trueSheriffs
- Slavery
- trueSlavery
- Slavery -- Fiction
- Slaves
- Slaves -- Fiction
- Virginia
- Virginia -- Fiction
- trueVirginia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- trueWomen with disabilities
- trueAfrican American plantation owners
- African American plantation owners
- African American plantation owners -- Fiction
- trueAfrican American slaveholders
- African American slaveholders
- African American slaveholders -- Fiction
- trueAfrican Americans
- trueAmerican people
- trueEnslaved people
- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- When a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--dies, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion and corrupt underpaid patrollers who enable free black people to be sold into slavery
- Award
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- ALA Notable Book, 2004.
- BCALA Literary Award for First Novelist, 2004.
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2003.
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2005.
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 2003.
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2004.
- Awards note
- Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2004.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Interest level
- UG
- Literary form
- fiction
- Reading level
- 5.8
- Study program name
- Accelerated Reader AR
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