Oxherding Tale - Couverture souple

Johnson, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0452275032 ISBN 13 : 9780452275034

Editeur : Penguin, 1995

Synopsis

“Memorable . . . a daring, extravagant novel.” – The New Yorker
 
By the National Book Award-winning author of Middle Passage
 
One night in the antebellum South, a slaveowner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours drinking Madeira and playing cards. Finally, too besotted to face their respective wives, they drunkenly decide to switch places in each other’s beds. The result is a hilarious imbroglio and an offspring, Andrew Hawkins, whose life becomes the Oxherding Tale, a deliciously funny, bitterly ironic account of slavery, racism, oppression – and the African-American spirit – in the Old South. Through sexual escapades, picaresque adventures, and philosophical inquiry, young Hawkins walks the line between white and black worlds and comments wryly on marriage, human nature, slave catchers, and culture along the way.
 
“A wonderfully funny, erotica, bittersweet story of the hero’s travels from slavery to freedom.”—Chicago Sun Times
 

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Charles Johnson's books include the National Book Award-winning novel Middle Passage, Dreamer, and Africans in America. He is currently the Pollock Professor of English at the University of Washington.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0452275032
• ISBN 13: 9780452275034
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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