Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Gebundenes Buch

The American Daughters

Beschreibung

A gripping historical novel about a spirited girl who joins a sisterhood working to undermine the Confederates-from the award-winning author of We Cast a Shadow.

Autor

Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the recipient of the 2023 Louisiana Writer Award and the Black Rock Senegal Residency. His first short story collection, The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You, is the 2023 One Book One New Orleans selection, as well as a New York Times Editor's Choice, a finalist for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and longlisted for the Story Prize. The book was also selected to represent Louisiana at the 2023 National Book Festival. His first book, We Cast a Shadow, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the PEN America Open Book Prize. It was longlisted for the 2021 DUBLIN Literary Award, the Center for Fiction Prize, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. The novel was also a New York Times Editor's Choice. Ruffin is the winner of several literary prizes, including the Iowa Review Award in fiction and the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition Award for Novel-in-Progress.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 166mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780349704913
• ISBN-10: 0349704910
• Artikelnr.: 70601950