middle passage
by johnson, charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0689119682
- ISBN 13
- 9780689119682
- Seller
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RIVER FALLS, Wisconsin, 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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- Bookseller
- Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 315842
- Title
- middle passage
- Author
- johnson, charles
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0689119682
- ISBN 13
- 9780689119682
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1990
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