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Library CD (In Stock)
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2 Formats: CD
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2 Formats: Library CD
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ISBN: 9781664433304
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ISBN: 9781664541139
| Runtime: | 7.10 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
After the Confederacy falls, newly freed slave Rutherford Calhoun is eager to avoid marrying a prim schoolteacher and boards the first ship he finds moored at a New Orleans port. Unbeknownst to Calhoun, the vessel is a slave ship enroute to Africa. On the return trip, Calhoun is put to work as a cabin boy and quickly assists the newly captured slaves in revolting against the drunken crew. This compelling adventure is filled with a perfect blend of colorful narrative, historical romance and suspense.Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Blending confessional, ship’s log, and adventure, the narrative interweaves a disquisition on slavery, poverty, race relations and an African worldview at odds with Western materialism.” —Publishers Weekly
Author
Author Bio: Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. A MacArthur fellow, his fiction includes Night Hawks, Dr. King’s Refrigerator, Dreamer, Faith and the Good Thing, and Middle Passage, for which he won the National Book Award. In 2002 he received the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 7.10 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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