Oxherding Tale - by Charles Johnson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>When a slaveowner and his African-American butler drunkenly decide to switch places in each other's beds, the result is a hilarious imbroglio and an offspring, Andrew Hawkins, whose life becomes the "Oxherding Tale," a deliciously funny, bitterly ironic account of slavery, racism, oppression--and the African-American spirit--in the Old South.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From National Book Award-winning author, Charles Johnson, comes a wonderful mythic novel, part slave narrative, part comedy, part myth</b><b>--</b><b>first published in 1982 this phenomenally imaginative work marries Johnson's knowledge of philosophy, religion, race and history.</b> <p/>One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner and his African American butler stay up to all hours until, too drunk to face their wives, they switch places in each other's beds. The result is a hilarious imbroglio and an offspring--Andrew Hawkins, whose life becomes <i>Oxherding Tale</i>. <p/>Through sexual escapades, picaresque adventures, and philosophical inquiry, Hawkins navigates white and black worlds and comments wryly on human nature along the way. Told with pure genius, <i>Oxherding</i> <i>Tale</i> is a deliciously funny, bitterly ironic account of slavery, racism, and the human spirit--and it reveals the author as a great talent with even greater humanity.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A wonderfully funny, erotic, bittersweet story....Johnson presents a fable about racial difference and...[he] doesn't make light of the load, but makes the burden of its telling sweeter with Dickensian twists of plot and with outrageous characters.<br> -- <i>Chicago Sun-Times</i><br><br>A work of courage and compassion, virtuosity and intelligence.<br> -- <i>The Village Voice</i><br><br>I laughed. I cried. I thought. I marveled. <i>Oxherding Tale</i> is a beautiful book. Its language is extraordinary, its writing is crisp, clean, smooth, even in its complexity, and terribly affecting. It is masterful craft of the highest order.<br> -- August Wilson<br>
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