Middle Passage
by JOHNSON, Charles
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- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
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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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- Bookseller
- Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 035533
- Title
- Middle Passage
- Author
- JOHNSON, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1990
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All books are First Editions or First American Editions in dust jackets unless otherwise noted and are returnable within 30 days.
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