Salvage the Bones: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward (English) Paperback Book

Description: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward A big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds and a wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, "Salvage the Bones" is revelatory, real, and muscled with poetry. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Winner of the National Book Award A New York Times Best Book of the 21st CenturyAn Atlantic Great American Novel of the Last 100 Years "A taut, wily novel, smartly plotted and voluptuously written . . . Jesmyn Ward makes beautiful music, plays deftly with her readers expectations." -Parul Sehgal, New York Times The National Book Award-winning novel from the author of Let Us Descend and Men We Reaped-a gritty but tender story of family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Eschs father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesnt show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isnt much to save. Lately, Esch cant keep down what food she gets; shes fourteen and pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbulls new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on childs play and short on parenting. As the twelve days that make up the novels framework yield to their dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family--motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce--pulls itself up to face another day. A big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds, and a wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, Salvage the Bones is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real. Author Biography 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 2011 National Book Award, and Sing, Unburied, Sing, which won the 2017 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 2008-2010, Ward had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She was the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the 2010-2011 academic year. In 2016, the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award. She lives in Mississippi. Review "A taut, wily novel, smartly plotted and voluptuously written. It feels fresh and urgent, but its an ancient, archetypal tale . . . Jesmyn Ward makes beautiful music, plays deftly with her readers expectations." --Parul Sehgal, New York Times Book Review "Ward tells the story with a tense patience, marking day after day; when the storm comes, overturning everything, it feels like a fatal relief. At least the waitings over. Salvage the Bones expands our understanding of Katrinas devastation, beyond the pictures of choked rooftops in New Orleans and toward the washed-out, feral landscapes elsewhere along the coast." --New Yorker "Theres something of Faulkner to Wards grand diction, which rolls between teenspeak . . . and the larger, incantatory rhythms of myth. Shes fearless about her passion coming out purple, and for the most part the intensity of her story carries it off." --The Paris Review "Ive just read [Salvage the Bones], and itll be a long time before its magic wears off . . . [a] fiercely poetic novel . . . What makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico . . . Without a hint of pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical tragedy . . . A palpable sense of desire and sorrow animates every page here . . . Salvage the Bones has the aura of a classic about it." --Ron Charles, the Washington Post "Strikingly beautiful, taut, relentless and, by its end, indelible . . . Ward stares down the truth . . . Its astonishingly brave." --Joan Frank, San Francisco Chronicle "Salvage the Bones is an intense book, with powerful, direct prose that dips into poetic metaphor . . . the story is told with such immediacy and openness . . . That close-knit familial relationship is vivid and compelling, drawn with complexities and detail." --Los Angeles Times "The novels hugeness of heart and fierceness of family grip and hold on like Skeetahs pit bull."" --Ellen Feldman, O, the Oprah Magazine "A fresh new voice in American literature, Ward unflinchingly describes a world full of despair but not devoid of hope." --PW Starred review for Where the Line Bleeds "Her prodigious talent and fearless portrayal of a world too often overlooked make her novel a powerful choice." --Essence for Where the Line Bleeds "A richly textured tale...like the best fiction, it creates its own world." --Susan Larson, N.O. Times-Picayune for Where the Line Bleeds "A remarkable first novel...a lyrical, clear-eyed portrait of a rural South and an African-American reality that are rarely depicted." --Boston Globe for Where the Line Bleeds Review Quote Without a false note . . . A superbly realized work of fiction that, while Southern to the bone, transcends its region to become universal. Details ISBN1608196267 Author Jesmyn Ward Short Title SALVAGE THE BONES Language English ISBN-10 1608196267 ISBN-13 9781608196265 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 2012 Publication Date 2012-04-24 Subtitle A Novel Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2012-04-24 NZ Release Date 2012-04-24 US Release Date 2012-04-24 UK Release Date 2012-04-24 Pages 288 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:44141476;

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