The Known World

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize Award and r ecognized as the best book of fiction in the 21st century by the New York Times, E dward P. Jones's The Known World is a debut novel of stunning emotional depth and unequaled literary power and continues to show its importance to the American literary canon. Henry Townsend, a farmer, boot maker, and former slave, through the surprising twists and unforeseen turns of life in antebellum Virginia, becomes proprietor of his own plantation—as well his own