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Soulcatcher: And Other Stories
by Johnson, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0156011123
- ISBN 13
- 9780156011129
- Seller
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Ashland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
San Diego: Harcourt Inc., 2001. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Uncorrected Proof. Light wear to wraps, text fine.
Synopsis
Twelve stories about the African experience of slavery in America, by the National Book Award-winning novelist. Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us with a conflicted and contradictory history. Now, famed novelist Charles Johnson, whose Middle Passage won the National Book Award, presents a dozen tales of the effects and experience of slavery, each based on historical fact, and each about those Africans who arrived on our shores in shackles. From Martha Washington's management of her slaves, bequeathed to her at the death of the first president, to a boy chained in the bowels of a ship plying the infamous passage from Africa to the South laden with human cargo, from a lynching in Indiana to a hunter of escaped slaves searching the Boston market for his quarry, from an early Quaker meeting exploring resettlement in Africa to the day after Emancipation-the voices, terrors, and savagery of slavery come vividly and unforgettably to life. These stories, told by a master storyteller, transcend history even as they present it, and retell the mythic proportions of a historical period with astounding realism and beauty, power, and emotion.
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- Seller
- Take Five Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 005993
- Title
- Soulcatcher: And Other Stories
- Author
- Johnson, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0156011123
- ISBN 13
- 9780156011129
- Publisher
- Harcourt Inc.
- Place of Publication
- San Diego
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Fiction, Short Stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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