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The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. (2021, G.P. Putnam's Sons) Signed By Author
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- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “No flaws to note”
- Signed
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780593085684
- EAN
- 9780593085684
- Book Title
- Prophets
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- African American / General, African American / Historical, Literary, Historical
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Item Weight
- 21.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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Best Book of the Year NPR - The Washington Post - Boston Globe - TIME - USA Today - Entertainment Weekly - Real Simple - Parade - Buzzfeed - Electric Literature - LitHub - BookRiot - PopSugar - Goop - Library Journal - BookBub - KCRW - Finalist for the National Book Award - One of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year - One of the New York Times Best Historical Fiction of the Year - Instant New York Times Bestseller A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence. Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man--a fellow slave--seeks to gain favor by preaching the master's gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on their own. Isaiah and Samuel's love, which was once so simple, is seen as sinful and a clear danger to the plantation's harmony. With a lyricism reminiscent of Toni Morrison, Robert Jones, Jr., fiercely summons the voices of slaver and enslaved alike, from Isaiah and Samuel to the calculating slave master to the long line of women that surround them, women who have carried the soul of the plantation on their shoulders. As tensions build and the weight of centuries--of ancestors and future generations to come--culminates in a climactic reckoning, The Prophets fearlessly reveals the pain and suffering of inheritance, but is also shot through with hope, beauty, and truth, portraying the enormous, heroic power of love.
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
059308568x
ISBN-13
9780593085684
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23050083924
Product Key Features
Book Title
Prophets
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
African American / General, African American / Historical, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
21.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Ps3610.O627677p76
Reviews
One of Kirkus Reviews ' Most Anticipated Books of the Fall "Brims with so much confidence and artful flourish that it's hard to believe it's Jones's first book. Following a line of esteemed authors, he explores the story of enslavement in America and makes it his own....Jones's expertly drawn characters have depth and purpose, and the writing is beautiful despite the subject matter. A work that will resonate with those moved by Charles Johnson's Middle Passage and Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad ." - Library Journal (starred review) "An ambitious, imaginative, and important tale of Black queerness through history." - Kirkus Reviews "What a rare marvel this book is. The Prophets fashions an epic so rich in erudition, wisdom, clarity, and power, so full of hard-earned yet too-brief joys, that it reaffirms for me literature's place as both balm and scalpel for the mind and soul. You can feel the decades of thinking embedded not only in these sentences but in how they question and build a world shamefully amputated from textbooks. Rarely is a book this finely wrought, the lives and histories it holds so tenderly felt, and rendered unforgettably true." - Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous " The Prophets is easily the most superb tutorial in writing and loving I have ever read. I'm convinced Morrison, Baldwin, and Bambara sat around sipping wine one night, talking about the day we'd read an offering like The Prophets . Robert Jones, Jr., is a once-in-a-generation cultural worker whose art thankfully will be imitated for generations." -Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir "I've loved the writing of Robert Jones, Jr., for years, and The Prophets is an absolute triumph, a symphonic evocation of the heights and depths of pain, joy, and love." -R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries "In The Prophets , Robert Jones, Jr.'s lens is at once epic and microscopic, equally capable of evoking historical crises and interpersonal ones. Painfully harsh and painfully tender, this inventive, kaleidoscopic love story is a marvel." - Helen Phillips, author of The Need, "What a rare marvel this book is. The Prophets fashions an epic so rich in erudition, wisdom, clarity and power, so full of hard-earned yet too-brief joys, that it reaffirms for me literature's place as both balm and scalpel for the mind and soul. You can feel the decades of thinking embedded not only in these sentences but in how they question and build a world shamefully amputated from textbooks. Rarely is a book this finely wrought, the lives and histories it holds so tenderly felt, and rendered unforgettably true." - Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous " The Prophets is easily the most superb tutorial in writing and loving I have ever read. I'm convinced Morrison, Baldwin, and Bambara sat around sipping wine one night, talking about the day we'd read an offering like The Prophets . Robert Jones, Jr. is a once-in-a-generation cultural worker whose art thankfully will be imitated for generations." -Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir "I've loved the writing of Robert Jones, Jr., for years, and The Prophets is an absolute triumph, a symphonic evocation of the heights and depths of pain, joy, and love." -R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries "In The Prophets , Robert Jones, Jr.'s lens is at once epic and microscopic, equally capable of evoking historical crises and interpersonal ones. Painfully harsh and painfully tender, this inventive, kaleidoscopic love story is a marvel." - Helen Phillips, author of The Need, A #1 Indie Next Pick One of: O, The Oprah Magazine ''s "32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021" Kirkus Reviews '' Most Anticipated Books of the Fall "A brutal and beautiful love story between two enslaved men on a Mississippi plantation, a tale of rage and grace, of refuge among the ruins." - O, The Oprah Magazine "Kaleidoscopic...Anchored by the love story of two young men, this lyrical story evokes a vast spectrum of emotion and creates an epic that feels epic in scope, but also like each chapter is its own private universe." -Northern Virginia Magazine "Powerful and beautiful...The lyricism of The Prophets will recall the prose of James Baldwin. The strong cadences are equal to those in Faulkner''s Light in August . Sometimes the utterances in the short interpolated chapters seem as orphic as those in Thus Spake Zarathustra . If my comparisons seem excessive, they are rivaled only by Jones''s own pages and pages of acknowledgments. It seems it takes a village to make a masterpiece." - Publishers Weekly (starred Signature review by Edmund White) "Brims with so much confidence and artful flourish that it''s hard to believe it''s Jones''s first book. Following a line of esteemed authors, he explores the story of enslavement in America and makes it his own....Jones''s expertly drawn characters have depth and purpose, and the writing is beautiful despite the subject matter. A work that will resonate with those moved by Charles Johnson''s Middle Passage and Colson Whitehead''s The Underground Railroad ." - Library Journal (starred review) "Exquisite...Jones conveys powerful truths with well-chosen words in spare prose....A masterfully told story that will haunt readres from beginning to end." - Booklist (starred review) "An ambitious, imaginative, and important tale of Black queerness through history." - Kirkus Reviews "How devastating and glorious this is. Epic in its scale, intimate in its force, and lyrical in its beauty. The Prophets shakes right down to the bone what the American novel is, should do, and can be. That shuffling sound you hear is Morrison, Baldwin, and Angelou whooping and hollering both in pride, and wonder." -Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf "What a rare marvel this book is. The Prophets fashions an epic so rich in erudition, wisdom, clarity, and power, so full of hard-earned yet too-brief joys, that it reaffirms for me literature''s place as both balm and scalpel for the mind and soul. You can feel the decades of thinking embedded not only in these sentences but in how they question and build a world shamefully amputated from textbooks. Rarely is a book this finely wrought, the lives and histories it holds so tenderly felt, and rendered unforgettably true." - Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We''re Briefly Gorgeous " The Prophets is easily the most superb tutorial in writing and loving I have ever read. I''m convinced Morrison, Baldwin, and Bambara sat around sipping wine one night, talking about the day we''d read an offering like The Prophets . Robert Jones, Jr., is a once-in-a-generation cultural worker whose art thankfully will be imitated for generations." -Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir "I''ve loved the writing of Robert Jones, Jr., for years, and The Prophets is an absolute triumph, a symphonic evocation of the heights and depths of pain, joy, and love." -R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries "In The Prophets , Robert Jones, Jr.''s lens is at once epic and microscopic, equally capable of evoking historical crises and interpersonal ones. Painfully harsh and painfully tender, this inventive, kaleidoscopic love story is a marvel." - Helen Phillips, author of The Need
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