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Where the Line Bleeds
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
| Author:
Jesmyn Ward
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author:
Jesmyn Ward
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
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9781408899823
Category General Fiction
Tag Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Category: General Fiction
Page Extent:
256
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, life-changing summer, as they struggle to find work and contend with the reappearance of their parents – Cille, who left town for a better job, and Sandman, a dangerous addict – the brothers are forced into a series of decisions that will ultimately damn or save them. A delicate and closely observed portrait of fraternal love and strife and the bonds that can sustain and torment us, Where the Line Bleeds marks the beginning of Jesmyn Ward’s extraordinary career in fiction.
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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, life-changing summer, as they struggle to find work and contend with the reappearance of their parents – Cille, who left town for a better job, and Sandman, a dangerous addict – the brothers are forced into a series of decisions that will ultimately damn or save them. A delicate and closely observed portrait of fraternal love and strife and the bonds that can sustain and torment us, Where the Line Bleeds marks the beginning of Jesmyn Ward’s extraordinary career in fiction.
About Author
Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novels Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, which won the 211 National Book Award, and Sing, Unburied, Sing, which won the 217 National Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time and the author of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. From 28-21, Ward had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She was the John and Ren©e Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the 21-211 academic year. In 216, the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award. She lives in Mississippi.
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