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The Absent Man: The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt

by Charles Duncan

$40 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · In dust jacket

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xx/214 pages. "As the first African-American fiction writer to achieve a national reputation, Ohio native Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932) in many ways established the terms of the black literary tradition now exemplified by such writers as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Charles Johnson."

  • Publisher: Ohio University Press
  • Year: 1998
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Printing: first
  • Binding: hardcover

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