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ISBN-10: 1597096288
ISBN-13: 9781597096287
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Publish Date: 01/15/2019
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.90" W, 0.30" H

The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, Va, 1843: Annotated from the Library of John C. Calhoun

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Percival Everett’s The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843, Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun, is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical document–a guidebook for the American slave owner. The collection features lists of instructions for buying, training, and punishing, equations for calculating present and future profits, and handwritten annotations affirming the brutal contents. The Book of Training lays bare the mechanics of the peculiar institution of slavery and challenges readers to place themselves in the uncomfortable vantage point of those who have bought and enslaved human beings.

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It's not surprising that So Much Blue is such a perfectly structured novel; Everett is an author who started his career off strong and just keeps getting better. It's a generous, thrilling book by a man who might well be America's most under-recognized literary master, and readers will be thinking about it long after the last page. As Kevin observes at one point: 'Like most things that come back to haunt you, it haunted me in the beginning. No ghost is born overnight.'–Michael Shaub, NPR Book Review
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ISBN-10: 1597096288
ISBN-13: 9781597096287
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Publish Date: 01/15/2019
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.90" W, 0.30" H
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