Oxherding Tale

From National Book Award-winning author, Charles Johnson, comes a wonderful mythic novel, part slave narrative, part comedy,...
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Author: Charles Johnson
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Oxherding Tale by Johnson, Charles

Oxherding Tale

¥3,607

Oxherding Tale

¥3,607
Author: Charles Johnson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
From National Book Award-winning author, Charles Johnson, comes a wonderful mythic novel, part slave narrative, part comedy, part myth--first published in 1982 this phenomenally imaginative work marries Johnson's knowledge of philosophy, religion, race and history.

One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner and his African American butler stay up to all hours until, too drunk to face their wives, they switch places in each other's beds. The result is a hilarious imbroglio and an offspring--Andrew Hawkins, whose life becomes Oxherding Tale.

Through sexual escapades, picaresque adventures, and philosophical inquiry, Hawkins navigates white and black worlds and comments wryly on human nature along the way. Told with pure genius, Oxherding Tale is a deliciously funny, bitterly ironic account of slavery, racism, and the human spirit--and it reveals the author as a great talent with even greater humanity.

Author: Charles Johnson
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 02/01/2005
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.32h x 4.68w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780743264495

About the Author
Johnson, Charles: - Charles Johnson is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. A MacArthur fellow, his fiction includes Night Hawks, Dr. King's Refrigerator, Dreamer, Faith and the Good Thing, and Middle Passage, for which he won the National Book Award. In 2002 he received the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.

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