The Resource Sing, unburied, sing : a novel, Jesmyn Ward
Sing, unburied, sing : a novel, Jesmyn Ward
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The item Sing, unburied, sing : a novel, Jesmyn Ward represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- 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
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover editon.
- Extent
- 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501126079
- Label
- Sing, unburied, sing : a novel
- Title
- Sing, unburied, sing
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Jesmyn Ward
- 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."--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Awards note
- National Book Award for Fiction, 2017
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ward, Jesmyn
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3623.A7323
- LC item number
- S56 2017
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African American families
- African American families
- Children of drug addicts
- Grandparents as parents
- Racially mixed children
- Coming of age
- Mississippi
- Label
- Sing, unburied, sing : a novel, Jesmyn Ward
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover editon.
- Extent
- 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501126079
- Isbn Type
- (trade paper)
- Lccn
- 2017039315
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1001340693
- Label
- Sing, unburied, sing : a novel, Jesmyn Ward
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover editon.
- Extent
- 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501126079
- Isbn Type
- (trade paper)
- Lccn
- 2017039315
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1001340693
Subject
- Bildungsromans
- Children of drug addicts -- Fiction
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- Grandparents as parents -- Fiction
- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Racially mixed children -- Fiction
- African American families -- Fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Road fiction
- African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction
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