Middle Passage
by Johnson, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 0330317784
- ISBN 13
- 9780330317788
- Seller
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Sorn, East Ayrshire, 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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- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 218848
- Title
- Middle Passage
- Author
- Johnson, Charles
- Illustrator
- No Illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Green Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0330317784
- ISBN 13
- 9780330317788
- Publisher
- Picador By Pan Books Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- AFRICAN AMERICANS_FICTION FICTION_HISTORICAL FICTION_ACTION &
- X weight
- 2 oz
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