The Cattle Killing
by John Edgar Wideman
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Sullivan, Michaela - jacket design. First Edition, Ex-Library book with typical markings and protective clear plastic wrapper over original bright and unfaded dust jacket. Solid square binding. Inside pages clean throughout. We ship within 24 hours in most cases.
Synopsis
In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman. His struggle to find her and save them both plummets them both into the nightmare of a society violently splitting itself into white and black. Spiraling outward from the core image of a cattle killing--the Xhosa people's ritual destruction of their herd in a vain attempt to resist European domination--the novel expands its narrator's search for meaning and love into the America, Europe and South Africa of yesterday and today.
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- Seller
- Meteor Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 000074
- Title
- The Cattle Killing
- Author
- John Edgar Wideman
- Illustrator
- Sullivan, Michaela - jacket design
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Co.
- Date Published
- 1996
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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