OXHERDING TALE
by JOHNSON, Charles
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- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0253166071
- ISBN 13
- 9780253166074
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About This Item
Bloomington IN: Indiana University, 1982. First printing. 8vo, pp. 176. Black cloth. A nice copy in little soiled and scuffed dj. His second novel. A novel of slavery. Charles Johnson later won the National Book Award for his novel "Middle Passage" From the dj: " Andrew Hawkins' birth is the result of a huge misunderstanding. His story begins on an evening in 1837. Jonathan Polkinghorne, master of the Cripplegate plantation, and his dutiful butler, George Hawkins, drink a bit too much and decide they can't go home to their own wives—so they go home to each others'. Disaster ensues. Their wives never quite recover, George is banished to the fields, and nine months later Anna Polkinghorne gives birth to the fated narrator of OXHERDING TALE.
Synopsis
Charles Johnson 's books include the National Book Award-winning novel Middle Passage , Dreamer , and Africans in America . He is currently the Pollock Professor of English at the University of Washington.
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- Bookseller
- Second Life Books Inc (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53203
- Title
- OXHERDING TALE
- Author
- JOHNSON, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0253166071
- ISBN 13
- 9780253166074
- Publisher
- Indiana University
- Place of Publication
- Bloomington IN
- Date Published
- 1982
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