One night in the antebellum South, a slave-owner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours drinking and playing cards. They drunkenly agree to switch beds and the result is an offspring, Andrew Hawkins, whose life becomes the "Oxherding Tale".
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One night in the antebellum South, a slave-owner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours drinking and playing cards. They drunkenly agree to switch beds and the result is an offspring, Andrew Hawkins, whose life becomes the "Oxherding Tale".
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Add this copy of Oxherding Tale to cart. $7.18, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Indiana University Press.
Add this copy of Oxherding Tale: a Novel to cart. $17.50, like new condition, Sold by Garys Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Apache Junction, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Indiana Universty Press.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book First Printing. His novel MIDDLE PASSAGE won the National Book Award for Fiction. Author of SOULCATCHER. Spine crack at the half-title page, else fine.
Add this copy of Oxherding Tale, a Novel to cart. $20.00, good condition, Sold by Collins Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Indiana Univ Press.
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Minor cover wear, light soiling to page edges, light lean to book yet tight binding, clean throughout, Good + in cover wear, light spine fade, Very Good- jacket. 176pp, octavo. inscribed by author with 2 quotes from author to ffep.
Add this copy of Oxherding Tale to cart. $25.00, very good condition, Sold by Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Indiana University Press,.
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Add this copy of Oxherding Tale to cart. $36.82, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Indiana Univ Pr.
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Bloomington. 1982. Indiana University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0253166071. 176 pages. hardcover. Jacket drawing by Sharon Sklar. keywords: Literature America Black. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Andrew Hawkins' birth is the result of a huge misunderstanding. His story begins on an evening in 1837. Jonathan Polkinghorne, master of the Cripplegate plantation, and his dutiful butler, George Hawkins, drink a bit too much and decide they can't go home to their own wives-so they go home to each others'. Disaster ensues. Their wives never quite recover, George is banished to the fields, and nine months later Anna Polkinghorne gives birth to the fated narrator of OXHERDING TALE. As a youth, Andrew is caught in the perpetual battle of the sexes; as he matures, he becomes a social chameleon, who tastes life fully in both the white and the black worlds, never truly belonging to either. Charles Johnson's comic philosophical novel takes the form of a picaresque, first-person narrative. It is the story of Andrew's desperate flight from slavery, but in OXHERDING TALE bondage is spiritual as well as physical, sexual as well as racial. Andrew's adventures cover not only the landscape of the antebellum South-the horrors of the ‘peculiar institution, ' black suicide, and death in the mines-but also timeless questions of identity and the nature of the self. Like John Fowles in The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Barth in The Sotweed Factor, and E. L. Doctorow in Ragtime, Charles Johnson has created a narrative voice that bridges present-day and past sensibilities. The form of OXHERDING TALE-at once a celebration and an exploration of a traditional genre-underscores its meaning: a fiction that fully treats slavery and liberation on every level of experience. inventory #34308.
Add this copy of Oxherding Tale to cart. $55.00, Sold by Second Life Books Inc. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lanesborough, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Indiana University.
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8vo, pp. 176. Black cloth. A nice copy in little soiled and scuffed dj. His second novel. A novel of slavery. Charles Johnson later won the National Book Award for his novel "Middle Passage" From the dj: " Andrew Hawkins' birth is the result of a huge misunderstanding. His story begins on an evening in 1837. Jonathan Polkinghorne, master of the Cripplegate plantation, and his dutiful butler, George Hawkins, drink a bit too much and decide they can't go home to their own wives-so they go home to each others'. Disaster ensues. Their wives never quite recover, George is banished to the fields, and nine months later Anna Polkinghorne gives birth to the fated narrator of OXHERDING TALE. "
Add this copy of Oxherding Tale to cart. $100.00, good condition, Sold by Ira Joel Haber, ships from Brooklyn, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Indiana University Press.
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SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1986. 2nd novel by the well regarded African American author. Usual sun fading to the spine panel of the dustjacket and an old tape mend to the top edge of the spine panel. Also tiny faint spot to the front edge. Vg/vg.
Add this copy of Oxherding Tale to cart. $124.40, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Indiana Univ Pr.