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Middle Passage

by Charles Johnson
Middle Passage

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ISBN13: 9780684855882
ISBN10: 0684855887
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A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson's National Book Award-winning masterpiece — "a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick...heroic in proportion...fiction that hooks the mind" (The New York Times Book Review) — now with a new introduction from Stanley Crouch.

Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is lost in the underworld of 1830s New Orleans. Desperate to escape the city's unscrupulous bill collectors and the pawing hands of a schoolteacher hellbent on marrying him, he jumps aboard the Republic, a slave ship en route to collect members of a legendary African tribe, the Allmuseri. Thus begins a voyage of metaphysical horror and human atrocity, a journey which challenges our notions of freedom, fate and how we live together. Peopled with vivid and unforgettable characters, nimble in its interplay of comedy and serious ideas, this dazzling modern classic is a perfect blend of the picaresque tale, historical romance, sea yarn, slave narrative and philosophical allegory.

Now with a new introduction from renowned writer and critic Stanley Crouch, this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Middle Passage celebrates a cornerstone of the American canon and the masterwork of one of its most important writers. "Long after we'd stopped believe in the great American novel, along comes a spellbinding adventure story that may be just that" (Chicago Tribune).

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"Middle Passage is both unexpectedly funny and highly intellectual." Washington Post

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"A vivid and compelling work." Essence

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"Middle Passage resonates...a spirited adventure tale daringly spun off the realm of myth." Newsday

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"A savage parable of the black experience in America...blending confessional, ship's log, and adventure...in luxuriant, intoxicating prose." Publishers Weekly

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Charles Johnson is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. A MacArthur fellow, his fiction includes Night Hawks, Dr. King's Refrigerator, Dreamer, Faith and the Good Thing, and Middle Passage, for which he won the National Book Award. In 2002 he received the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780684855882
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
07/01/1998
Publisher:
SIMON & SCHUSTER TRADE
Pages:
224
Height:
.47IN
Width:
5.30IN
Thickness:
.50
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1998
UPC Code:
2800684855884
Author:
Charles Richard Johnson
Author:
Charles Johnson
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Afro-Americans -- Fiction.
Subject:
Sea stories
Subject:
Historical fiction
Subject:
Afro-americans
Subject:
Slave-trade
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Subject:
Adventure stories
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
African Americans

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