WALK THROUGH DARKNESS
by Durham David Anthony
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 2002. SIGNED COPY, First Edition, First Printing. With illustrated double-titlepage. 8vo, publisher’s original brown boards backed in black and in the original dustjacket. 291pp. A mint and as pristine copy. WALK THROUGH DARKNESS is a provocative meditation on racial identity, freedom and equality. It is the story of a fugitive slave in Antebellum America, who must run a terrifying gauntlet, eluding the many who would re-enslave him while learning to trust the few who dare to aid him on his quest.
Synopsis
David Anthony Durham earned an M.F.A from the University of Maryland. His first novel, Gabriel’s Story , was published to wide acclaim in 2001. He has won several awards, including the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Fiction Award, a First Novel Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and a Legacy Award. His short fiction appears in Gumbo: An Anthology of African American Writing . Durham lives with his wife and two children in rural Scotland.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Buddenbrooks, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23726
- Title
- WALK THROUGH DARKNESS
- Author
- Durham David Anthony
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
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Buddenbrooks, Inc.
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