Middle Passage
by Johnson, Charles
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good. Clean, tight & attractive.
- Seller
-
Golconda, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Inscription from author on title page. A Plume Book.
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.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Rosebud Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1.20366
- Title
- Middle Passage
- Author
- Johnson, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good. Clean, tight & attractive.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Plume Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Bookseller catalogs
- general fiction;
Terms of Sale
Rosebud Books
Books must be returned within 7 days of receipt in the "same as shipped" condition for a refund. Shipping charges will not be refunded. Money Orders, business checks, or credit cards processed through Biblio accepted as payment.
About the Seller
Rosebud Books
About Rosebud Books
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.