Middle Passage.
by JOHNSON, Charles
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0689116535
- ISBN 13
- 9780689116537
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Atheneum, 1990. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, maroon paper-covered boards. Fine in price-clipped, fine First Issue dust jacket, without the NBA seal. Winner of the National Book Award.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Orpheus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15627
- Title
- Middle Passage.
- Author
- JOHNSON, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Black cloth spine, maroon paper-covered boards.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition / First printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0689116535
- ISBN 13
- 9780689116537
- Publisher
- Atheneum,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1990.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; z5;
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