Houghton Mifflin, 1996. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st. Signed by John Edgar Wideman, otherwise unmarked. Glossy dust jacket moderately rubbed. Tiny tear at base of spine. Price clipped. Binding square & firm..

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In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman. His struggle to find her and save them both plummets them both into the nightmare of a society violently splitting itself into white and black. Spiraling outward from the core image of a cattle killing--the Xhosa people's ritual destruction of their herd in a vain attempt to resist European domination--the novel expands its narrator's search for meaning and love into the America, Europe and South Africa of yesterday and today.

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Bookseller's Inventory #: 114253
Title: The Cattle Killing
Author: Wideman, John Edgar
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket
Edition: 1st
ISBN 10: 0395785901
ISBN 13: 9780395785904
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1996
Keywords: African-American Fiction
Bookseller catalogs: African-Americans. Afro-American Studies. Racism;

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