The Resource Sing, Unburied, Sing : A Novel, Jesmyn Ward, (electronic resource)
Sing, Unburied, Sing : A Novel, Jesmyn Ward, (electronic resource)
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The item Sing, Unburied, Sing : A Novel, Jesmyn Ward, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
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- Summary
- "A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally lauded, and in Sing, Unburied, Sing she is at the height of her powers. Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise. Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family. Rich with Ward's distinctive, musical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource(1 sound file (8 hr.,22 min.,42 sec.))
- Note
- Audio book
- Isbn
- 9781508236146
- Label
- Sing, Unburied, Sing : A Novel
- Title
- Sing, Unburied, Sing
- Title remainder
- A Novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Jesmyn Ward
- Subject
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- Audiobooks
- Bildungsromans
- Children of drug addicts -- Fiction
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- Downloadable audio books
- Grandparents as parents -- Fiction
- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Racially mixed children -- Fiction
- Road fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- African American families -- Fiction
- African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally lauded, and in Sing, Unburied, Sing she is at the height of her powers. Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise. Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family. Rich with Ward's distinctive, musical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature."--
- Accompanying matter
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- MnSpTMCL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ward, Jesmyn
- Form of composition
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- Format of music
- not applicable
- Literary text for sound recordings
- fiction
- Music parts
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- PerformerNote
- Read by Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Chris Chalk and Rutina Wesley
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- 1994-
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- Harrison, Kelvin
- Wesley, Rutina
- Chalk, Chris
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- African American families
- African American families
- Children of drug addicts
- Grandparents as parents
- Racially mixed children
- Coming of age
- Mississippi
- Transposition and arrangement
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- Sing, Unburied, Sing : A Novel, Jesmyn Ward, (electronic resource)
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- Audio book
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- digital storage
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- stereophonic
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- spoken word
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- spw
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- rdacontent
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- not applicable
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource(1 sound file (8 hr.,22 min.,42 sec.))
- Form of item
- online
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781508236146
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- pgoaxr9
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
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- sound
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- digital recording
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- Label
- Sing, Unburied, Sing : A Novel, Jesmyn Ward, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Note
- Audio book
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource(1 sound file (8 hr.,22 min.,42 sec.))
- Form of item
- online
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781508236146
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- pgoaxr9
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- Speed
- unknown
- System control number
- (MnSpTMCL)pgoaxr9
- System details
-
- Format: MP3
- Requires: cloudLibrary (file size: 230.1 MB)
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
Subject
- Audiobooks
- Bildungsromans
- Children of drug addicts -- Fiction
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- Downloadable audio books
- Grandparents as parents -- Fiction
- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Racially mixed children -- Fiction
- Road fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- African American families -- Fiction
- African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction
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