Published Nov 17 2011 by ThirdAge


National Book Award for Fiction Goes to Jesmyn Ward for 'Salvage the Bones'

The National Book Award for fiction was given to Jesmyn Ward for her book "Salvage the Bones," a bleak but determined novel about a community devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

Ward's acceptance, the culmination of a night of emotional speeches and tributes to those who...

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"I thought I should point out, since nobody else has" said poet Ann Lauterbach...
National Book Award for Fiction Goes to Jesmyn Ward for 'Salvage the Bones' [ThirdAge - Nov 17 2011]
...he said. "I wanted the difficulty to reflect the difficulty of reading, any kind of reading, which is both a pleasant and painful experience since we are temporarily giving ourselves over to something that may change us."
National Book Award for Fiction Goes to Jesmyn Ward for 'Salvage the Bones' [ThirdAge - Nov 17 2011]
"My book is about the power of books to cross boundaries, to speak to you impossibly across space and time and distance, to have someone long dead in the room with you, speaking in your ear" said Greenblatt, a...
National Book Award for Fiction Goes to Jesmyn Ward for 'Salvage the Bones' [ThirdAge - Nov 17 2011]

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