The Cattle Killing
by Wideman, John Edgar
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- Hardcover
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- first
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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
- Beasley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33149
- Title
- The Cattle Killing
- Author
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- African American, Black Studies, Afro-american
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