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Review: 'The Known World'

NPR
Published October 28, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

Price Cobbs, a black medical doctor, reviews The Known World, a novel set in the pre-Civil War era. Cobbs says the author's imagination evokes powerful themes that still haunt the American conscience.

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