Lost in the City - 20th Anniversary Edition: Stories, (Paperback)

from snash

Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones is just an excellent collection of short stories set in Washington DC during the 50's to 70's. The characters are black, many elderly. Jones captures a mood and situation brilliantly. The stories reverberate with humanity struggling with the effort of making se...

from louisu

This book was actually read surprisingly quick after it was purchased. Within a few days, actually, miracles do happen on occasion. In fact that is what i felt when i read this book. Once again based on the writer's advent of winning awards like a Pulitzer I was encouraged to start buying his boo...

from Stbalbach

Lost in the City - a collection of short stories - is Edward P. Jones' first book, followed by the Pulitzer Price winning novel The Known World (2003), and All Aunt Hagar's Children (2006), a second collection of short stories. Both Lost and Aunt Hagar are about blacks in Washington, DC where Jon...

from AnneliM

Stories set in black D.C. many in the 50s and 60s. Especially good "The Store". Author is a Washington native and his descriptions are wonderful and accurate.

from dchaikin

7. Lost in the City : Stories by Edward P. Jones published: 1992 format: 268 page paperback acquired: from Borders in 2005 read: Jan 28 - Feb 5 rating: 4½ "...he was left with the ever-increasing vastness of the small apartment..." Struggling just to get myself sitting and reading and actually bl...