middle Passage
by Johnson, Charles
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0452266386
- ISBN 13
- 9780452266384
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Synopsis
Charles R. Johnson is an American scholar and author of novels, short stories, and essays. His 1990 winner of the national Book Awards, Middle Passage , is a historical novel set in 1830. It is focused on the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship, the Republic. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave, is desperate to escape his debt to a local gangster and his impending forced marriage to a prim schoolteacher. He sneaks onto a ship that is headed out to sea to capture members of a legendary African tribe, the Allmuseri. As the novel unfolds, Calhoun is trapped between three parties and thus begins a shocking voyage of horror, self-discovery and insurrection. A superbly written modern classic.
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- Bookseller
- A Good Read (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17772
- Title
- middle Passage
- Author
- Johnson, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0452266386
- ISBN 13
- 9780452266384
- Publisher
- Plume
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- 0452266386
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