The Chaneysville Incident Contributor(s): Bradley, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060916818 ISBN-13: 9780060916817 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1990 Annotation: Compared by reviewers to the writing of James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison, this book is the powerful story of one man's obsession with discovering a secret in his heritage. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - History - Fiction | African American - Historical |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 80008225 |
Physical Information: 1.12" H x 5.34" W x 8.18" (0.75 lbs) 448 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania - Locality - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award The Chaneysville Incident rivals Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon as the best novel about the black experience in America since Ellison's Invisible Man. -- Christian Science Monitor The legends say something happened in Chaneysville. The Chaneysville Incident is the powerful story of one man's obsession with discovering what that something was a quest that takes the brilliant and bitter young Black historian John Washington back through the secrets and buried evil of his heritage. Returning home to care for and then bury his father's closest friend and his own guardian, Old Jack Crawley, John comes upon the scant records of his family's proud and tragic history, which he drives himself to reconstruct and accept. This is the story of John's relationship with his family, the town, and the woman he loves; and also between the past and the present, between oppression and guilt, hate and violence, love and acceptance. |