Synopsis
Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books
Winner of the National Book Award 1990
The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans.
Rutherford Calhoun, a puckish rogue and newly freed slave, spends his days loitering around the docks of New Orleans, dodging debt collectors, gangsters, and Isadora Bailey, a prim and frugal woman who seeks to marry him...
Details
17 February 2022224 pages
9781529078107Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Long after we’d stopped believe in the great American novel, along comes a spellbinding adventure story that may be just thatChicago Tribune
A novel in the honorable tradition of Billy Budd and Moby Dick... heroic in proportion...fiction that hooks into the mindNew York Times Book Review
A rousing adventure yarn that resonates with and echoes the spirit of early sea stories. . . Johnson has fashioned a tale of travel and tragedy, yearning and history, and done so from a different, rarely explored viewpoint. . . .Middle Passage is a story of slavery, often brilliant in its structure and riveting in the way it's toldSan Francisco Chronicle
Middle Passage has it all - rich lyricism and erudition, apocalyptic storms, clumsy ships disintegrating beneath their sputtering sailors and perilous philosophical conflicts.Independent
