{"product_id":"oxherding-tale-9780743264495","title":"Oxherding Tale","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom National Book Award-winning author, Charles Johnson, comes a wonderful mythic novel, part slave narrative, part comedy, part myth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efirst published in 1982 this phenomenally imaginative work marries Johnson's knowledge of philosophy, religion, race and history.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne 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 \u003ci\u003eOxherding Tale\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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, \u003ci\u003eOxherding\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTale\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohnson, Charles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Charles Johnson is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. A MacArthur fellow, his fiction includes \u003ci\u003eNight Hawks\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDr. King's Refrigerator\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDreamer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFaith and the Good Thing\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMiddle Passage\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he won the National Book Award. In 2002 he received the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50647493017874,"sku":"9780743264495","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_269150ab-04b5-4354-91fd-39752d0ecb17.jpg?v=1734800828","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/oxherding-tale-9780743264495","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}