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Review: 'The Known World'

Published October 27, 2003 at 11:00 PM CST

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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.