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Salvage the Bones

Salvage the Bones Paperback - 2012

by Jesmyn Ward

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A big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds and a wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, "Salvage the Bones" is revelatory, real, and muscled with poetry.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2012. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Salvage the Bones
  • Author Jesmyn Ward
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA, New York
  • Date 2012
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G1608196267I5N00
  • ISBN 9781608196265 / 1608196267
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.25 x 5.6 x 0.75 in (20.96 x 14.22 x 1.91 cm)
  • Reading level 890
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Brothers and sisters, African American teenage girls
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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First Edition Identification

The first edition of Salvage the Bones was printed by Bloomsbury, New York, in 2011. The first edition has a complete number line on the copyright page and a $24.00 price on the dust jacket. 


Easton Press released a signed leatherbound edition with 22k gold accents. 



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Citations

  • Essence, 07/01/2012, Page 60

About the author

Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novels Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, which won the 2011 National Book Award, and Sing, Unburied, Sing, which won the 2017 National Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time and the author of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. From 2008-2010, Ward had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She was the John and Rene Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the 2010-2011 academic year. In 2016, the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award. She lives in Mississippi.