Jesmyn Ward

Let Us Descend

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gale, a Cengage Group
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 138mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9781420516562
• ISBN-10: 1420516566
• Artikelnr.: 70680885

Autorenporträt

Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the historic winner—first woman and first Black American—of two National Book Awards for Fiction for  Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) and Salvage the Bones (2011). She is also the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds and the memoir Men We Reaped , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.

Rezensionen

I have read all of Jesmyn Ward's books and have been a fan of her writing for years. Let Us Descend is a vital work for our culture and I'm so excited to have her newest offering as part of our Book Club