Middle Passage
by JOHNSON, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0330317784
- ISBN 13
- 9780330317788
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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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
- The Book House in Dinkytown (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 256043
- Title
- Middle Passage
- Author
- JOHNSON, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First British Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0330317784
- ISBN 13
- 9780330317788
- Publisher
- Picador / Pan Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1991-01-01
- Keywords
- LITERA
- X weight
- 2 oz
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