{"product_id":"men-we-reaped-jesmyn-ward","title":"Men We Reaped (Jesmyn Ward)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A brutal, moving memoir . Anyone who emerges from America's black working-class youth with words as fine as Ward's deserves a hearing'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e - Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Raw, beautiful and dangerous' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Lavishly endowed with literary craft and hard-earned wisdom' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe beautiful, haunting memoir from Jesmyn Ward, the first woman to win the National Book Award twice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'And then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped' - Harriet Tubman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJesmyn Ward's acclaimed memoir shines a light on the community she comes from in the small town of DeLisle, Mississippi, a place of quiet beauty and fierce attachment. Here, in the space of four years, she lost five young black men dear to her, including her beloved brother - to accidents, murder and suicide. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir deaths were seemingly unconnected, yet their lives had been connected by identity and place. As Jesmyn dealt with these losses, she came to a staggering truth: the fates of these young men were predetermined by who they were and where they were from,  because racism and economic struggle breed a certain kind of bad luck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe agonising reality brought Jesmyn to write, at last, their true stories and her own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Acute and often beautiful' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Haunting' \u003c\/b\u003e- Laurie Penny, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman Books of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Elegiac, rage-filled, and uncommonly brave' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A brilliant book about beauty and death' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Essential' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Burns with brilliance' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Harper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Unvarnished and penetrating' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Elle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJesmyn Ward\u003c\/b\u003e received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received a MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renée Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the winner of two National Book Awards for Fiction for \u003ci\u003eSing, Unburied, Sing\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) and \u003ci\u003eSalvage the Bones\u003c\/i\u003e (2011). She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eWhere the Line Bleeds\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLet Us Descend\u003c\/i\u003e, an Oprah Book Club pick and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize; and the memoir \u003ci\u003eMen We Reaped\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 272 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66310147998045,"sku":"K057321800","price":12.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/5732180000001A.jpg?v=1792825699","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/men-we-reaped-jesmyn-ward","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}