Salvage the Bones Contributor(s): Ward, Jesmyn (Author) |
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ISBN: 1608196267 ISBN-13: 9781608196265 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | African American - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 890 |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.6" W x 8.25" (0.65 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Demographic Orientation - Rural |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 152039 Reading Level: 5.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 13.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Winner of the National Book Award |
Contributor Bio(s): Ward, Jesmyn: - Jesmyn Ward grew up in DeLisle, Mississippi. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won five Hopwood awards for essays, drama, and fiction. A Stegner Fellow at Stanford, from 2008-2010, she has been named the 2010-11 Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. Her debut novel, Where the Line Bleeds, was an Essence Magazine Book Club selection, a Black Caucus of the ALA Honor Award recipient, and a finalist for both the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. In 2017, she was awarded a McArthur Genius Grant. |