The Cattle Killing
by John Edgar Wideman
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- Paperback
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- Used:Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395877504
- ISBN 13
- 9780395877500
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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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- Ergodebooks (US)
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- DADAX0395877504
- Title
- The Cattle Killing
- Author
- John Edgar Wideman
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used:Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0395877504
- ISBN 13
- 9780395877500
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Place of Publication
- Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1997-09-15
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