Pub Date: April 30, 2002
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 00025291
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.70" H x 8.04" L x 5.22" W ( 0.53 lbs) 304 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Historical | General | Coming of Age | Family Life | Siblings
Description: "Gabriel's Story" introduces a writer of consummate skill, poetic genius, and literary seriousness. Set in the 1870s, it is the marvelously told coming-of-age story of a young African American in the fierce American West.
Review Quotes: "Wise and beautifully written."-USA Today
"Artistically impressive and emotionally satisfying, a serious work that heads off in exhilarating directions."-The New York Times Book Review "Sweeps the reader up into a fascinating, Oz-like whirlwind of language."-San Francisco Chronicle "Moving. . . . The moral gravity of Durham's narrative is offset by his attentiveness to the primacy of nature in the Western landscape." -The New Yorker "Durham captures with exquisite precision the isolation, loneliness and cruelty of life in the vastness of the West . . . . The reader turns the last page with regret at the journey's end." -The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)