The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.(Signed by the Author) (HQ822)

Published 2021: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Signed by the Author

Original decorated cloth with gilt titles all round. 427 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on covers. (HQ822)

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About Robert Jones Jr.
Robert Jones, Jr. is author of The New York Times Instant Bestselling novel, The Prophets, which has been long listed for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. He has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, Essence, and The Paris Review. He is the creator and curator of the social-justice, social-media community Son of Baldwin, which has over...
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Reviews for The Prophets: a New York Times Bestseller
'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 '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 '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 '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 read this novel and heard ancestral voices. When I quoted passages aloud to my friends, they were stunned because they heard them too. Jones Jr's carefully researched novel is meticulous in detail and grand in scope. It weaves a thread of emotional truth that stitches together patchwork, myriad characters and makes them whole. In a powerful reinvention of a familiar narrative, The Prophets mines unfamiliar depths. A painful, necessary, and heartwarming tale of survival amidst horrific circumstances. Brilliance.
Courttia Newland 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
The Prophets is indeed an outstanding novel, delivering tender, close-up intimacy, but also a great sweep of history
The Guardian
A spellbinding debut narrated by a variety of characters tells the story of the forbidden union between Samuel and Isaiah, two enslaved young men on a plantation in America's Deep South and the desire to forge connections. Vividly drawn, Jones Jr. skilfully rewrites the existence of Black queer people in recent history
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A polyphonic novel
Vanity Fair
The writing is beautifully evocative - a book you'll be thinking about long after you've finished it.
Good Housekeeping
The Prophets is a lyrical, poetic novel, one that, despite its harrowing scenes, leaves you with some sense of humanity.
Independent
I am challenged by The Prophets. I am provoked, shaken and moved
Peggy Riley Epic in its scope, the novel portrays a black history that connects African ancestors, nature, spiritualism, sex, love and shared trauma - an ambitious and intense mix.
Grimsby Telegraph
[E]ach lyrical, densely detailed paragraph is itself a transfixing journey.
Daily Mail
Epic in its scope, the novel portrays a black history that connects African ancestors, nature, spiritualism, sex, love and shared trauma - an ambitious and intense mix. Google Books...