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Book summaryGabriel Lynch, an African-American adolescent in the years after the Civil War, goes with his mother and stepfather to homestead in Kansas. Tired of the hard work this entails, Gabriel takes off, traveling to Texas with a violent man named Marshall Hogg who promises him a job as a cowboy. Before long the two of them are on the run when Marshall is wanted for murder. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. Media reviews"[A] moving first novel....The moral gravity of Durham's narrative is offset by his attentiveness to the primacy of nature in the Western landscape...." |
GABRIEL'S STORYby Durham, David AnthonyFirst edition
Book description: New York: Doubleday, 2000. Hardcover First edition A first novel set in 1870's Kansas; upon publication it received many fine reviews if not great sales. An important debut. Fine in Fine DJ.
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