From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Known World
"Original and arresting....[Jones's] stories will touch chords of
empathy and recognition in all readers."
--Washington Post
"These 14 stories of African-American life...affirm humanity as only
good literature can."
--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. Jones to national
attention. 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. Lost in the City received the Pen/Hemingway Award for
Best First Fiction and was a National Book Award Finalist. 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.