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The Known World by Edward P. Jones Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-06-115917-4 / 0061159174 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-115917-6 / 9780061159176 Set in Manchester County, Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War began, Edward P. Jones's debut novel, The Known World, is a masterpiece of overlapping plot lines, time shifts, and heartbreaking details of life under slavery. Caldonia Townsend is an educated black slaveowner, the widow of a wel |