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Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston; Jesmyn Ward (Introduction by)
27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
With a new introduction by JESMYN WARD Born on the wrong side of the creek, John Buddy Pearson, the son of a slave, has come a long way since his shoeless days. With some schooling, a job and marriage to clever Lucy Potts, his fortunes are looking up. But, unable to resist the lure of women or a fight, ...Show more
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Let us descend, and enter his blind world' —Dante's Inferno Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of ...Show more
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came to get the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.' Harriet Tubman In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men in her life, to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in pove ...Show more
Salvage the Bones : A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
39.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, ...Show more
Salvage the Bones (Prize Winner National Book Award 2011) by Jesmyn Ward
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family. Esch and her three brothers are stocking up on food, but there isn't mu ...Show more
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Andrew Carnegie Medal, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family ...Show more
Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward
21.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The first novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, a timeless Southern fable of brotherly love and familial conflict Joshua and Christophe are twins, raised by a blind grandmother and a large extended family in a rural town on Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Over the course of a single, li ...Show more
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