the cattle killing
by john edgar wideman
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0395785901
- ISBN 13
- 9780395785904
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Collegeville, Pennsylvania, United States
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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
- Need new Teeth (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HC281
- Title
- the cattle killing
- Author
- john edgar wideman
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395785901
- ISBN 13
- 9780395785904
- Publisher
- houghton mifflin
- Place of Publication
- usa
- Date Published
- 1996
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