MIDDLE PASSAGE
by JOHNSON, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Slight foxing to bulked text edges, otherwise Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Charles R. Johnson is an American scholar and author of novels, short stories, and essays. His 1990 winner of the national Book Awards, Middle Passage , is a historical novel set in 1830. It is focused on the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship, the Republic. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave, is desperate to escape his debt to a local gangster and his impending forced marriage to a prim schoolteacher. He sneaks onto a ship that is headed out to sea to capture members of a legendary African tribe, the Allmuseri. As the novel unfolds, Calhoun is trapped between three parties and thus begins a shocking voyage of horror, self-discovery and insurrection. A superbly written modern classic.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020339
- Title
- MIDDLE PASSAGE
- Author
- JOHNSON, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight foxing to bulked text edges, otherwise Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Modern First Editions, Slavery, National Book Award, Nautical Fiction, Black Literature, 20th Century American Literature, African-American Literature, Modern Firsts
- Bookseller catalogs
- African-American Literature; Slavery;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
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About the Seller
Charles Agvent
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