Lost in the City

Name: Lost in the City
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Edward P. Jones
ISBN: 9781436142144

Author: Edward P. Jones

Narrator: Cherise Boothe, Caroline Clay, Peter Jay Fernandez, Patricia R. Floyd, Kevin R. Free

Unabridged: 10 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/06/2008

Categories: Nonfiction, Social Science, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, American, African American & Black Studies

Synopsis

Edward P. Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the critically acclaimed novel The Known World. A finalist for the National Book Award, Lost in the City features 15 poignant short stories, each set in Washington, D.C. Far removed from marble monuments and the offices of rich politicians, the nation's capital that Jones captures is inhabited by self-willed African-Americans struggling to live their lives as best they can.

About Edward P. Jones

Edward P. Jones, the New York Times bestselling author, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for The Known World; he also received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004. His first collection of stories, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was short listed for the National Book Award. His second collection, All Aunt Hagarâ€™s Children, was a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award. He has been an instructor of fiction writing at a range of universities, including Princeton. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Reviews

Goodreads review by JimZ on April 27, 2021

A Goodreads friend’s review enticed me to put this on my TBR list and so I ordered it (the 20th anniversary edition because it has an introduction by the author) and read it in two days. The 14 stories overall were excellent, and one had me close to tears. There was a bonus story in the 2002 Annivers......more

Goodreads review by B. P. on January 12, 2021

Tryin To Get To You by The Eagles (1950s R&B group from Washington, D. C.) Coming-up on year 6 of the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent I'm a late-comer to Edward P. Jones. I missed all the hype over The Known World, but when I did realize there was this idosyntric auth......more

Goodreads review by Emma Deplores Goodreads Censorship on July 06, 2015

This is a well-written collection, comprised of 14 stories about the lives of African-American characters living in Washington, D.C. I read it in large part because several years ago I was extremely impressed with Jones’s novel, The Known World. This was the author’s first book and though imperfect,......more