Original and arresting....
This beautiful 20th Anniversary Edition features a new introduction by the author, and is a wonderful companion piece to Jones\'s masterful novel and his second acclaimed collection of stories, All Aunt Hagar\'s Children ..
Lost in the City received the Pen/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction and was a National Book Award Finalist.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and numerous other honors for his novel The Known World , Jones made his literary debut with these powerful tales of ordinary people who live in the shadows in this metropolis of great monuments and rich history.
Jones to national attention. -- Los Angeles Times A magnificent collection of short fiction focusing on the lives of African-American men and women in Washington, D.
C., Lost in the City is the book that first brought author Edward P. -- Washington Post These 14 Stories of African-American life...affirm humanity as only good literature can.
Jones\'s] Stories will touch chords of empathy and recognition in all readers.
Original and arresting...
