| Gabriel's Story: A Novel (Hurston/Wright Legacy Award) Contributor(s): Durham, David Anthony (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385720335 ISBN-13: 9780385720335 Publisher: Anchor Books OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2002 Annotation: When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil on the untamed prairie. So he joins up with a motley crew headed for Texas only to be sucked into an ever-westward wandering replete with a mindless violence he can neither abet nor avoid-a terrifying trek he penitently fears may never allow for a safe return. David Anthony Durham is a genuine talent bent on devastating originality" and" Gabriel's Story is as formidable a debut as we have witnessed. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Family Life - Siblings |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00025291 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.22" W x 8.04" (0.53 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Plains - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Kansas - Topical - Family - Cultural Region - Heartland - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 69117 Reading Level: 6.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 16.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil on the untamed prairie. So he joins up with a motley crew headed for Texas only to be sucked into an ever-westward wandering replete with a mindless violence he can neither abet nor avoid-a terrifying trek he penitently fears may never allow for a safe return. David Anthony Durham is a genuine talent bent on devastating originality and Gabriel's Story is as formidable a debut as we have witnessed. |