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MIDDLE PASSAGE.
by Johnson, Charles
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0689119682
- ISBN 13
- 9780689119682
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: ATHENEUM.. Fine. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 0689119682 . INSCRIBED by Charles Johnson on the title page. Original printed invitation to the book signing laid-in loosely. About fine in a like dj. (Hint of bumping at crest of spine on cloth & dj. Barely discernable crease at bottom edge of rear panel of dj.) National Book Award winner.; Signed by Author(s) .
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
- Waverley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 305357
- Title
- MIDDLE PASSAGE.
- Author
- Johnson, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0689119682
- ISBN 13
- 9780689119682
- Publisher
- ATHENEUM.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- 0689119682, Black Literature/charles Johnson/207
- Bookseller catalogs
- List207;
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