The Cattle Killing
by John Edgar Wideman
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
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- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0395785901
- ISBN 13
- 9780395785904
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The Cattle Killing Houghton Mifflin 1996 1st ed. 121pp This copy has been inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. Fine in Fine jacket. clphE
Synopsis
In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman. His struggle to find her and save them both plummets them both into the nightmare of a society violently splitting itself into white and black. Spiraling outward from the core image of a cattle killing--the Xhosa people's ritual destruction of their herd in a vain attempt to resist European domination--the novel expands its narrator's search for meaning and love into the America, Europe and South Africa of yesterday and today.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 868154
- Title
- The Cattle Killing
- Author
- John Edgar Wideman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395785901
- ISBN 13
- 9780395785904
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1996
- Pages
- 121
- Size
- 8vo 8" - 9" tall
- Keywords
- 0395785901, FICTION, AFRO-AMERICANS, PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA, HISTORY, 18TH, CENTURY, CLERGY, AFRICANS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Racism;
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