Synopsis
One night in the antebellum South, a slave-owner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours drinking and playing cards. They drunkenly agree to switch beds and the result is an offspring, Andrew Hawkins, whose life becomes the "Oxherding Tale".
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Review
"I laughed. I cried. I thought. I marveled. "Oxherding Tale" 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."
-- August Wilson
"A work of courage and compassion, virtuosity and intelligence."
-- The Village Voice
"I laughed. I cried. I thought. I marveled. Oxherding Tale 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."
-- August Wilson
"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.
-- Chicago Sun-Times
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One night in the antebellum South, a slaveowner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours drinking Madeira and playing cards. Finally, too besotted to face their respective wives, they 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. Through sexual escapades, picaresque adventures, and philosophical inquiry, young Hawkins walks the line between white and black worlds and comments wryly on marriage, human nature, slave catchers, and culture along the way.
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Grove Press, New York, 1982
ISBN 10: 0802150519
ISBN 13: 9780802150516
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