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REVIEWS: Washington
Black
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One of the TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR New York Times Book
Review. 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. Washington Black is a story of self-invention and
betrayal, of love and redemption, and of a world destroyed and
made whole again.
Characters: 79. Amazon rating: 4 1/2 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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