MIDDLE PASSAGE
by Johnson Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- near fine hardcover copy in a near fine dustwrapper
- ISBN 10
- 0330317784
- ISBN 13
- 9780330317788
- Seller
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Rayleigh, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Synopsis
Charles R. Johnson is an American scholar and author of novels, short stories, and essays. His 1990 winner of the national Book Awards, Middle Passage , is a historical novel set in 1830. It is focused on the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship, the Republic. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave, is desperate to escape his debt to a local gangster and his impending forced marriage to a prim schoolteacher. He sneaks onto a ship that is headed out to sea to capture members of a legendary African tribe, the Allmuseri. As the novel unfolds, Calhoun is trapped between three parties and thus begins a shocking voyage of horror, self-discovery and insurrection. A superbly written modern classic.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fantastic Literature Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FA18.299
- Title
- MIDDLE PASSAGE
- Author
- Johnson Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine hardcover copy in a near fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- 1st UK edition. An adventure novel about the sea and the 19th-ce
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0330317784
- ISBN 13
- 9780330317788
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1991
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