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Washington Black : A Novel by Esi Edugyan (2018, Hardcover)
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- Book Title
- Washington Black : a Novel
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Topic
- African American / Historical, Literary, Action & Adventure, Historical
- Type
- Novel
- Book Series
- Historical
- Genre
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780525521426
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Width
- 6.6in
- Item Weight
- 24.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR * MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST * "A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free." -- Vanity Fair Eleven-year-old George Washington Black--or Wash--a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master's brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning, and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, they must abandon everything and flee together. Over the course of their travels, what brings Wash and Christopher together will tear them apart, propelling Wash ever farther across the globe in search of his true self. Spanning the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, London to Morocco, Washington Black is a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, and of a world destroyed and made whole again.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525521429
ISBN-13
9780525521426
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242762298
Product Key Features
Book Title
Washington Black : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
African American / Historical, Literary, Action & Adventure, Historical
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
24.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr9199.4.E35w37 2018
Reviews
" Washington Black is nothing short of a masterpiece. Esi Edugyan has a rare talent for turning over little known stones of history and giving her reader a new lens on the world, a new way of understanding subject matter we arrogantly think we know everything about. This book is an epic adventure and a heartfelt tale about love and morality and their many contradictions. I loved it." --Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird, " Washington Black is as harrowing a portrayal of slavery as Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, but it also becomes a globe-trotting, page-turning adventure story. A historical epic with much to say about the present-day world." -- The Guardian " Washington Black is nothing short of a masterpiece. Esi Edugyan has a rare talent for turning over little known stones of history and giving her reader a new lens on the world, a new way of understanding subject matter we arrogantly think we know everything about. This book is an epic adventure and a heartfelt tale about love and morality and their many contradictions. I loved it." --Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird "Wonderful . . . Eloquent . . . Brilliant . . . Wash and Titch are so alive as to be unforgettable . . . This important novel from the author of the superb Half-Blood Blues belongs in every library." -- Booklist (starred) "Edugyan's magnificent third novel again demonstrates her range and gifts . . . Framing the story with rich evocations of the era's science and the world it studies, Edugyan mines the tensions between individual goodwill and systemic oppression, belonging and exclusion, wonder and terror, and human and natural order . . . Crafted in supple, nuanced prose, Edugyan's novel is both searing and beautiful." -- Publishers Weekly (starred, boxed) "High adventure fraught with cliffhanger twists marks this runaway-slave narrative, which leaps, sails, and soars from Caribbean cane fields to the fringes of the frozen Arctic and across a whole ocean . . . One of the most unconventional escapes from slavery ever chronicled . . . Edugyan displays as much ingenuity and resourcefulness as her main characters in spinning this yarn, and the reader's expectations are upended almost as often as her hero's. A thoughtful, boldly imagined ripsnorter that broadens inventive possibilities for the antebellum novel." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) " Washington Black is an intimate portrait of slavery at its most genocidal and of the limitations of kindness in an unjust system. The book's hero is a gifted scientist and artist fighting to live a fully human life in a world that insists on seeing him either as livestock or as an object of pity. Along the way, there are balloon rides through storms at sea, vignettes of frontier life in nineteenth century Canada, scenes of polar exploration, and the establishment of the world's first aquarium. Washington Black is a brilliantly absorbing picaresque; a book that combines the unflinching depiction of violence with a lyrical, hallucinatory beauty." --Sandra Newman, author of The Country of Ice Cream Star, " Washington Black is nothing short of a masterpiece. Esi Edugyan has a rare talent for turning over little known stones of history and giving her reader a new lens on the world, a new way of understanding subject matter we arrogantly think we know everything about. This book is an epic adventure and a heartfelt tale about love and morality and their many contradictions. I loved it." --Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird "High adventure fraught with cliffhanger twists marks this runaway-slave narrative, which leaps, sails, and soars from Caribbean cane fields to the fringes of the frozen Arctic and across a whole ocean . . . One of the most unconventional escapes from slavery ever chronicled . . . Edugyan displays as much ingenuity and resourcefulness as her main characters in spinning this yarn, and the reader's expectations are upended almost as often as her hero's. A thoughtful, boldly imagined ripsnorter that broadens inventive possibilities for the antebellum novel.", "Thrilling . . . Washington Black is a gripping tale, made vivid by Esi Edugyan''s gifts for language and character, and by the strength of her story . . . The reader feels honoured to have kept Wash company on his journeying: and moved to see him embark upon his true beginning." --Erica Wagner, The New Statesman (UK) " Washington Black is deserving of its place [on the Man Booker Prize longlist]. It''s a box of treats that manages to work history, science, and politics together under the guise of a high-stakes, steampunk adventure . . . For all its cinematic capers--there are snowstorms, identical twins, and searches for lost fathers-- Washington Black is a profoundly humane story about false idols, the fickleness of fortune, and whether a slave, once freed, can ever truly be free." --Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Times (London) " Washington Black is as harrowing a portrayal of slavery as Colson Whitehead''s The Underground Railroad, but it also becomes a globe-trotting, page-turning adventure story. A historical epic with much to say about the present-day world." -- The Guardian " Washington Black is nothing short of a masterpiece. Esi Edugyan has a rare talent for turning over little known stones of history and giving her reader a new lens on the world, a new way of understanding subject matter we arrogantly think we know everything about. This book is an epic adventure and a heartfelt tale about love and morality and their many contradictions. I loved it." --Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird "At the core of this novel, with its searing, supple prose and superb characters, is a visceral depiction of the abomination of slavery. Yet, as importantly, it explores an unlikely friendship, the limits to understanding another''s suffering, the violence lurking in humans, and the glories of adventure in a world full of wonders." --Elizabeth Buchan, The Daily Mail "Wonderful . . . Eloquent . . . Brilliant . . . Wash and Titch are so alive as to be unforgettable . . . This important novel from the author of the superb Half-Blood Blues belongs in every library." -- Booklist (starred) "Edugyan''s magnificent third novel again demonstrates her range and gifts . . . Framing the story with rich evocations of the era''s science and the world it studies, Edugyan mines the tensions between individual goodwill and systemic oppression, belonging and exclusion, wonder and terror, and human and natural order . . . Crafted in supple, nuanced prose, Edugyan''s novel is both searing and beautiful." -- Publishers Weekly (starred, boxed) --Natasha Walter, The Guardian "High adventure fraught with cliffhanger twists marks this runaway-slave narrative, which leaps, sails, and soars from Caribbean cane fields to the fringes of the frozen Arctic and across a whole ocean . . . One of the most unconventional escapes from slavery ever chronicled . . . Edugyan displays as much ingenuity and resourcefulness as her main characters in spinning this yarn, and the reader''s expectations are upended almost as often as her hero''s. A thoughtful, boldly imagined ripsnorter that broadens inventive possibilities for the antebellum novel." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) " Washington Black is an intimate portrait of slavery at its most genocidal and of the limitations of kindness in an unjust system. The book''s hero is a gifted scientist and artist fighting to live a fully human life in a world that insists on seeing him either as livestock or as an object of pity. Along the way, there are balloon rides through storms at sea, vignettes of frontier life in nineteenth century Canada, scenes of polar exploration, and the establishment of the world''s first aquarium. Washington Black is a brilliantly absorbing picaresque; a book that combines the unflinching depiction of violence with a lyrical, hallucinatory beauty." --Sandra Newman, author of The Country of Ice Cream Star, " Washington Black is nothing short of a masterpiece. Esi Edugyan has a rare talent for turning over little known stones of history and giving her reader a new lens on the world, a new way of understanding subject matter we arrogantly think we know everything about. This book is an epic adventure and a heartfelt tale about love and morality and their many contradictions. I loved it." --Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird "Edugyan's magnificent third novel again demonstrates her range and gifts . . . Framing the story with rich evocations of the era's science and the world it studies, Edugyan mines the tensions between individual goodwill and systemic oppression, belonging and exclusion, wonder and terror, and human and natural order . . . Crafted in supple, nuanced prose, Edugyan's novel is both searing and beautiful." -- Publishers Weekly (starred, boxed) "High adventure fraught with cliffhanger twists marks this runaway-slave narrative, which leaps, sails, and soars from Caribbean cane fields to the fringes of the frozen Arctic and across a whole ocean . . . One of the most unconventional escapes from slavery ever chronicled . . . Edugyan displays as much ingenuity and resourcefulness as her main characters in spinning this yarn, and the reader's expectations are upended almost as often as her hero's. A thoughtful, boldly imagined ripsnorter that broadens inventive possibilities for the antebellum novel." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred)
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
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2017-058436
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Dewey Edition
23
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