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008			070413t2006------------------000-u-eng-u
020			_a978-0-06-055756-0
082	0		_aFIC JON
100	1		_aJones, Edward P.
245	1	0	_aAll Aunt Hagar's children _b: stories _c/ Edward P. Jones
260			_aNew York _b: Amistad _c, c2006.
300			_a399 p. _c; 23 cm.
520			_aComing after the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Known World, Jones's second collection of stories journeys the length and breadth of Washington, D.C., past and present, for inspiration. James, stentorian and assured, sounds like an East Coast version of Charlton Heston's Moses, intoning Jones's prose like a contemporary version of the 10 Commandments. There is an odd disjunction between James's mostly uninflected reading and the heavily accented dialect he provides for Jones's characters when they speak, but James makes it work. Jones, acclaimed as one of the most talented American writers currently at work, composes smooth, measured prose that demands a reader like James, who follows the ebb and flow of Jones's stories like the score of an opera.
650			_aAfrican Americans _v--Fiction
651		4	_aWashington (D.C.) _x-- Fiction.
655		7	_aShort stories
942			_cMO
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