The Known World by Edward P. Jones Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Known World
Book Review: Nice Try...
Summary: 3 Stars
Sadly, this book does not live up to its billing; it's certainly not a Pulitzer winner on merit. "Hard to follow" is kind; the plot and the telling is a mishmash that bobs and weaves, takes five steps forward and six back, enters cul-de-sacs and makes hairpin turns. You get the idea. Frankly, Jones could have written a good book, but he needed a good editor.Book Review: Not just about color, but more about wealth.
Summary: 5 Stars
The Know World is a book I enjoyed. I felt pulled into a world I knew nothing about, as if in a dream walking bare foot down a dirt road. Hearing galloping horses and running to hide in the adjacent fields, fearing of who the riders could be.
As a divorce mother with shared visitation of my children, knowing the pain Henry Townsend's mother must have felt when she and her husband both now freed slaves having to leave their young son after every visit because he was still a slave.
Henry Townsend main character a freed slave and then becomes a slave owner.
I found myself hating Caldonia's mother after Henry's passing because of her believe that Henry's slaves where Caledonia legacy.
How proud I felt of Sheriff John Skiffington and his wife Winifred when they were given a young slave girl, and took her in as part of their family.
Edward P. Jones's novel tells a story of slavery not of blacks and whites but human being; the color wasn't the only issues; it was more about who had money to be free and also who had the wealth to keep slaves.
This is a book I will read again and again, it was worth my time. But be prepared to be pulled into world where having slaves was a right of passage.
Book Review: Odd looking
Summary: 1 Stars
The pages are not even cuted; some are larger and ame are slightly smaller.
looks old, too.
Book Review: One of my favorite books
Summary: 5 Stars
The Known World is full of heartbreak & is not always easy to read... and yet I couldn't stop. Mr Jones' writing is so beautiful & moving. This book reminds me to be thankful for the easiness in my own life.Book Review: Riveting! You'll never forget it.
Summary: 5 Stars
Edward P. Jones's "The Known World": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" (Volume 26, Chapter 4)