The Absent Man: The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt
by Charles Duncan
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0821412396
- ISBN 13
- 9780821412398
- Seller
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Brooktondale, New York, United States
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About This Item
First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xx/214 pages.
"As the first African-American fiction writer to achieve a national reputation, Ohio native Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932) in many ways established the terms of the black literary tradition now exemplified by such writers as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Charles Johnson."
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- Bookseller
- Palimpsest Scholarly Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2724
- Title
- The Absent Man: The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt
- Author
- Charles Duncan
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0821412396
- ISBN 13
- 9780821412398
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Place of Publication
- Athens
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- African-American History/Culture, US Literature
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