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The Cattle Killing

Publisher: Mariner Books

Contributors:

John Edgar Wideman (Author)

Contributors: John Edgar Wideman (Author)

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BISAC categories: Fiction -> Historical -> General

BISAC categories: Fiction -> African American & Black -> Historical

BISAC categories: Fiction -> Literary

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In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman. His struggle to find her and save them both plummets them both into the nightmare of a society violently splitting itself into white and black. Spiraling outward from the core image of a cattle killing--the Xhosa people's ritual destruction of their herd in a vain attempt to resist European domination--the novel expands its narrator's search for meaning and love into the America, Europe and South Africa of yesterday and today.

ISBN-10: 0395877504
ISBN-13: 9780395877500
Author: Wideman, John Edgar, N/A, N/A
Publisher: Mariner Books

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ISBN-13: 9780395877500

ISBN-10: 0395877504

Publisher: Mariner Books

Publish Date: September 15, 1997

On Sale Date: January 1, 0001

Language: English

Pages: 224

Dimensions: 8.0 × 5.0 × 0.8 in

Weight: 0.4 lbs

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