Salvage the Bones

2011 novel by Jesmyn Ward
VisualArtwork literary_work Q24037621
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Salvage the Bones

Summary

Salvage the Bones is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (39 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Salvage the Bones authored Jesmyn Ward[3].
  • Salvage the Bones received the The New Vanguard[4].
  • Salvage the Bones received the National Book Award for Fiction[5].
  • Salvage the Bones's instance of is recorded as literary work[6].
  • Salvage the Bones's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 202151474930900490003[7].
  • Salvage the Bones's language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • Salvage the Bones's country of origin is recorded as United States[9].
  • Salvage the Bones's publication date is recorded as +2011-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • Salvage the Bones's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0hgyxks[11].
  • Salvage the Bones's Open Library ID is recorded as OL16086740W[12].
  • Salvage the Bones's narrative location is recorded as Mississippi[13].
  • Salvage the Bones's main subject is recorded as Hurricane Katrina[14].
  • Salvage the Bones's main subject is recorded as African-Americans in Mississippi[15].
  • Salvage the Bones's title is recorded as Salvage the Bones[16].
  • Salvage the Bones's National Book Foundation book ID is recorded as salvage-the-bones[17].
  • Salvage the Bones's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Literature/SalvageTheBones[18].
  • Salvage the Bones's epigraph is recorded as We on our backs staring at the stars above,
    Talking about what we going to be when we grow up,
    I said what you wanna be? She said, ‘Alive.[19].
  • Salvage the Bones's FantLab work ID is recorded as 315198[20].
  • Salvage the Bones's form of creative work is recorded as novel[21].
  • Salvage the Bones's Goodreads work ID is recorded as 15760836[22].
  • Salvage the Bones's Book Marks ID is recorded as salvage-the-bones[23].

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Works and Contributions

Salvage the Bones authored Jesmyn Ward[3].

Recognition

Awards received include The New Vanguard[4], a news article[24], written by Dwight Garner[25] and National Book Award for Fiction[5], a literary award[26], in United States[27], founded in 1950[28].

Why It Matters

Salvage the Bones ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (39 views/month).[2]

FAQs

What awards did Salvage the Bones receive?

Honors received include The New Vanguard[4] and National Book Award for Fiction[5].

References

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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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