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Middle Passage
by Johnson, Charles
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/very near Fine
- Seller
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Atheneum, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [12], 209, [3] pp. Quarter black cloth over maroon paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Johnson's novel centers on Rutherford Calhoun, recently emancipated and looking to escape blackmail. He stows away on a slave ship bound for Africa, and is forced to confront the horrors of the American slave trade when he witnesses first-hand the transportation of African tribespeople across the Atlantic ocean. A lovely copy of the novel that won the 1990 National Book Award. A Fine book in a very near Fine dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear.
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
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00007883
- Title
- Middle Passage
- Author
- Johnson, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
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