The Chaneysville Incident; A Novel
by Bradley, David
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good/Fair
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1981. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. Paul Gamarello (Jacket Design) and Thomas Victor (. x, [2], 432, [2] pages. Inscribed by author on Dedication page. DJ has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. This is a work of historical reconstruction; the appearance of certain historical figures is therefore inevitable. All other characters are the product of the author's imagination. The Chaneysville Incident won the 1982 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. It concerns a black historian who investigates an incident involving the death of his father and a prior incident involving the death of some 12 slaves. John, the historian, struggles to solve the mystery of his father, Moses Washington, a moonshiner with a troubled past. Imagination, hunting, death, and racial tensions all make thematic appearances in this novel. Chaneysville is in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. David Henry Bradley, Jr. (born 1950) is the author of The Chaneysville Incident, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1982. The Chaneysville Incident, inspired in part by the real-life discovery of the graves of a group of runaway slaves on a farm near Chaneysville in Bedford County, PA, where Bradley was born, also earned Bradley a 1982 Academy Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Since 1985, Bradley has worked primarily in creative nonfiction, with pieces in Esquire, The New York Times, Philadelphia Magazine, and The Nation. Bradley holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in United States Studies from the University of London, and was on the faculty in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon. He appeared on a 2011 episode of 60 Minutes in a segment regarding the censored version of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74338
- Title
- The Chaneysville Incident; A Novel
- Author
- Bradley, David
- Illustrator
- Paul Gamarello (Jacket Design) and Thomas Victor (
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- African-Americans, Runaway Slaves, Chaneysville, Pennsylvania, Moses Washington, Moonshiner, Racism, Historian, Murder, Jack Crawley
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