Oxherding Tale
by Johnson, Charles
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0802150519
- ISBN 13
- 9780802150516
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1991, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo, softcover, VG in white and yellow decorative wraps. 176pp. One night in the antebellum South, a slaveowner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours drinking Madeira and playing cards. Finally, too besotted to face their respective wives, they drunkenly decide to switch places in each other's beds. The result is a hilarious imbroglio and an offspring, Andrew Hawkins, whose life becomes the Oxherding Tale, a deliciously funny, bitterly ironic account of slavery, racism, oppression - and the African-American spirit - in the Old South.
Synopsis
Charles Johnson 's books include the National Book Award-winning novel Middle Passage , Dreamer , and Africans in America . He is currently the Pollock Professor of English at the University of Washington.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72923
- Title
- Oxherding Tale
- Author
- Johnson, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0802150519
- ISBN 13
- 9780802150516
- Publisher
- Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1991
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1991
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