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Pym : a novel / Mat Johnson.
- Title
- Pym : a novel / Mat Johnson.
- Author
- Johnson, Mat
- Publication
- New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3560.O38167 P96 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 322 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- A comic journey into the ultimate land of whiteness by an unlikely band of African American adventurers. Jaynes is obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe's only novel ; when he discovers a crude slave narrative that seems to confirm the reality of Poe's fiction, he resolves to seek out Tsalal, imagining it to be a key to his personal salvation.
- Subject
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 > Fiction
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
- African American college teachers > Fiction
- Voyages and travels > Fiction
- Professeurs noirs américains (Enseignement supérieur) > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Voyages > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- African American college teachers
- Discoveries in geography
- Voyages and travels
- Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration > Fiction
- Arctique > Découverte et exploration > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Arctic Regions
- Genre/Form
- Fantasy fiction
- Fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780812981582
- 0812981588
- LCCN
- 2010029331
- OCLC
- 711617358
- SCSB-10647048
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library