The Cattle Killing
by Wideman, John Edgar
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395785901
- ISBN 13
- 9780395785904
- Seller
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Pittsford, New York, 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
- Abacus Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS006682I
- Title
- The Cattle Killing
- Author
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0395785901
- ISBN 13
- 9780395785904
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1996
- Bookseller catalogs
- african american;
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