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Title: The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley ISBN: 0060916818 Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) Pub. Date: May, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Rating: 4
Summary: A rare and thoughtful novel
Comment: I read this book over ten years ago and still cherish the hardcover edition. It is a book that deserved considerably more attention than it got at the time. And it has long stuck with me as an especially haunting tale of a man whose self-awareness is deepened by the unexpected confrontation with his past. There is not only the appeal of the central "mystery" of the story which keeps you turning each page or the description of the impact of racism on the lives of individuals in the past and the present, but there is the central theme of the connection between the influence of our ancestor's lives upon our own, and the ways in which our connection to the past defines us in the present, even when we are unaware or disinterested.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Haunting Book
Comment: I first picked up this book in the mid '80s because it was written by a contemporary at the University of Pennsylvania. Little did I know; this is a brilliant work which deserves much more attention than it has gotten. On one level it is about a man's acceptance of the world(s) he came from and the world(s) he lives in; on another level it is about his understanding that his pre-conceived notions about those worlds are not universally valid. And, it is not without humor - read the descriptions of the sanitation facilities on various sorts of transportation at the beginning! This book is gripping, eye-opening, and emotionally spending. But well worth it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A superb and lasting work
Comment: The Chaneysville Incident is a great novel. Recognized immediately after its publication as an important work, it won the Penn-Faulkner award, and deservedly so. The story is powerful and expertly told, and the writing is exquisite--read the first sentence and you'll read the whole book. This book is about what we reap. What we've reaped, Bradley argues, is his main character, his historian formed by history.
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Title: Corregidora by Gayl Jones ISBN: 0807063150 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: February, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman ISBN: 0395877296 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 15 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, A.B. Guthrie ISBN: 0618154620 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree R. Thomas ISBN: 0446677248 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines ISBN: 0553263579 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1982 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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