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“Original and arresting….[Jones’s] tales will touch chords of empathy and popularity in all viewers.”
—Washington Post “These 14 tales of African-American life…affirm humanity as only good literature can.”
—Los Angeles TimesA magnificent collection of brief fiction concentrating on the lives of African-American women and men in Washington, D.C., Lost in the City is the publication that first helped bring writer Edward P. Jones to countrywide attention. Victor of the Pulitzer Award, the National Booklet Critics Circle Prize, and numerous other honors for his book The Known World, Jones made his literary debut with these powerful stories of normal people who are in the shadows in this metropolis of great monuments and abundant record. Lost in the City received the Pencil/Hemingway Prize for Best First Fiction and was a National Book Prize Finalist. This beautiful 20th Anniversary Edition features a new launch by the author, and is an excellent companion piece to Jones’s masterful book and his second acclaimed assortment of tales, All Aunt Hagar’s Children.
