The Cattle Killing
by John Edgar Wideman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- USED Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395785901
- ISBN 13
- 9780395785904
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Montclair, New Jersey, United States
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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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Details
- Bookseller
- Montclair Book Center (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 126729
- Title
- The Cattle Killing
- Author
- John Edgar Wideman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- USED Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0395785901
- ISBN 13
- 9780395785904
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- October 1996
- Pages
- 212
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