The Chaneysville Incident Paperback - 1990
by David Bradley
Compared by reviewers to the writing of James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison, this book is the powerful story of one man's obsession with discovering a secret in his heritage.
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SOMETIMES YOU CAN HEAR THE WIRE, hear it reaching out across the miles; whining with its own weight, crying from the cold, panting at the distance, humming with the phantom sounds of someone else's conversation.
From the rear cover
The legends say something happened in Chaneysville. The Chaneysville Incident is the powerful story of one man's obsession with discovering what that something was--a quest that takes the brilliant and bitter young black historian John Washington back through the secrets and buried evil of his heritage. Returning home to care for and then bury his father's closest friend and his own guardian, Old Jack Crawley, he comes upon the scant records of his family's proud and tragic history, which he drives himself to reconstruct and accept. This is the story of John's relationship with his family, the town, and the woman he loves; and also between the past and the present, between oppression and guilt, hate and violence, love and acceptance.
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- Title The Chaneysville Incident
- Author David Bradley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 1990-06-12
- ISBN 9780060916817 / 0060916818
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.18 x 5.34 x 1.12 in (20.78 x 13.56 x 2.84 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
- Locality: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Philadelphia (Pa.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 80008225
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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