Gabriel's Story
by Durham, David Anthony
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Doubleday, 2001. CF4 - A first edition advance reading copy (ARC)/uncorrected proof book in very good condition with no dust jacket as issued (trade paperback). A tight, clean, sound copy in sepia photo illustrated wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with some very light yellowing of the outside paper edges. A novel about the American West. It is set in the 1870s and tells the story of a fifteen year old African-American boy who settles with his family in th eplains of Kansas to escape the racial violence and political terrorrism of the post-Reconstruction South. 296p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC).
Synopsis
David Anthony Durham was born in 1969 to parents of Caribbean ancestry. He won the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Fiction Award in 1992 and received an MFA from the University of Maryland in 1996. He has lived and traveled widely throughout America and Europe. Durham, along with his wife and daughter, now divides his time between the United States and Scotland.
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- Seller
- Bookmarc's
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- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW11788
- Title
- Gabriel's Story
- Author
- Durham, David Anthony
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Literary Novel Kansas Advance Reading Copy Uncorrected Proof ARC
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction: Historical; Fiction: Historical / US Historical Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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