About this title: Rutherford Calhoun escapes marriage and debt by stowing away on the illegal slave ship, the "Republic." Discovered, he is then put in charge of the ship's log. Calhoun must confront his self-centered philosophies as he writes the log, adrift with a cargo of slaves and forty crew members in search of new lives. This novel won the 1990 National Book Award.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Plume Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780452266384ISBN:0452266386
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine NOT creased. NO tears, stains, writing, etc. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 209 p. Plume Contemporary Fiction. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. 0689119682 ex-library book with markings, stamps and card pocket / minor wear to library plastic covered dust jacket / good hard cover / good clean pages / good condition. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Plume Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780452266384ISBN:0452266386
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 209 p. Plume Contemporary Fiction. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Plume
Date Published: 7/1/1991
ISBN-13:9780452266384ISBN:0452266386
Description: Like New. Paperback. This copy is tanning/toning with age throughout. Book has been read through once and remains in NEW shape. You are buying a Book in LIKE-NEW condition with very light shelf wear to include very light edge and corner wear. Buy it Now! ! ! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE this material FAST, or standard (on next ... read more
"Freshman book of some kind at Stanford. I remember it being dreadful. I went to see Charles Johnson speak afterwards; one of the things he talked about was learning words by reading the dictionary. While this is something I myself do/might aspire to do, the book kind of illustrated the worst of that--the vocabulary was graduate school English student, but the depth of the story was young adult novel."
"Freakishly fascinating-Freed Slave aboard a slave ship captained by a dwarf pirate! My son had to read it for Junior Honors English. This book is filled with allusions, anachronisms, and dark humor."
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