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The Chaneysville Incident
David Bradley
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Open Road Media
, 2013-08-06
主題
Fiction / African American & Black / Historical
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Cultural Heritage
ISBN
1480438529
9781480438521
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CZwVAAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner: “Rivals Toni Morrison’s
Song of Solomon
as the best novel about the black experience in America since Ellison’s
Invisible Man
” (
The Christian Science Monitor
).
Brilliant but troubled historian John Washington has left Philadelphia, where he is employed by a major university, to return to his hometown just north of the Mason–Dixon Line. He is there to care for Old Jack, one of the men who helped raise him when he was growing up on the Hill, an old black neighborhood in the little Pennsylvania town—but he also wants to learn more about the death of his father.
What John discovers is that his father, Moses Washington, left behind extensive notes on a mystery he was researching: why thirteen escaped slaves reached freedom in Chaneysville only to die there, for reasons forgotten or never known at all.
Based on meticulous historical research,
The Chaneysville Incident
explores the power of our pasts, and paints a vivid portrait of realities such as the Underground Railroad’s activity in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and the phenomenon of enslaved people committing suicide to escape their fate. This extraordinary novel, a finalist for the National Book Award, was described by the
Los Angeles Times
as “perhaps the most significant work by a new black male author since James Baldwin dazzled in the early ’60s with his fine fury,” and placed David Bradley in the front ranks of contemporary American authors.