Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.
Record details
- ISBN: 1608195228
- ISBN: 9781608195220
- ISBN: 9781608195220
- ISBN: 1608195228
- ISBN: 9781408827000 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 140882700X (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781608196265
- ISBN: 1608196267
- Physical Description: 261 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2011.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups. |
Study Program Information Note: | Reading Counts High School 5.7 20. Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 5.3 13 SD Quiz 152039 English fiction. |
Awards Note: | National Book Award, Fiction, 2011. |
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Genre: | Family > Fiction. Domestic fiction. |
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- 36 of 38 copies available at Bibliomation.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F WARD J (Text) | 32544073305921 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | F WARD (Text) | 34030124376648 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | F/WARD (Text) | 34029123416843 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC WARD (Text) | 34014124442766 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 04/10/2024 |
Chester Public Library | WAR (Text) | 33210000277802 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | F War (Text) | 33180123748445 | Adult Fiction - First Floor | Available | - |
Derby Public Library | FIC WAR (Text) | 34047121564331 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Douglas Library - North Canaan | F WAR (Text) | 33490030002830 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Easton Public Library | FIC WARD, JESMYN (Text) | 37777123525685 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC WARD,J (Text) | 34026120022178 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Author Notes
Salvage the Bones : A Novel
Jesmyn Ward was born in DeLisle, Mississippi in 1977. She became a writer after the death of her brother by a drunk driver. She received a MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. Her books include the novel Where the Line Bleeds, the memoir Men We Reaped, and the nonfiction work The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race. Salvage the Bones won the National Book Award in Fiction in 2011 and an Alex Award in 2012. Sing, Unburied, Sing won the National Book Award in Fiction in 2017. She taught at University of New Orleans, the University of South Alabama, and Tulane University. (Bowker Author Biography)