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Title:
47
By:
Walter Mosley
Format:
Paperback
List price:
£7.99
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£5.99
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ISBN 10:
0316016357
ISBN 13:
9780316016353
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Publisher:
LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY
Pub. date:
1 November, 2006
Pages:
240
Description:
Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.
Synopsis:
A young slave boy is named and numbered 47 on a nineteenth-century Georgia plantation and encounters the brutality and injustice of the system of slavery.47 meets a strange being named Tall John who appears to be another slave boy - a runaway. But as 47 comes to realise, John is an extraterrestrial visitor who believes that his destiny is intertwined with the young slave's. Tall John is a science fiction creation but he is also a reinterpretation of High John the Conqueror - a character taken from old slave myths about a spirit come from Africa to confound the slave masters and (ultimately) to free all slaves.
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Little, Brown & Company
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47 (HB)
ALL I DID WAS SHOOT MY MAN (PB)
ALWAYS OUTNUMBERED, ALWAYS OUTGUNNED
ALWAYS OUTNUMBERED, ALWAYS OUTGUNNED
ALWAYS OUTNUMBERED, ALWAYS OUTGUNNED (PB)
AND SOMETIMES I WONDER ABOUT YOU
AND SOMETIMES I WONDER ABOUT YOU (HB)
AND SOMETIMES I WONDER ABOUT YOU (PB)
AWKWARD BLACK MAN (HB)
AWKWARD BLACK MAN (PB)
BAD BOY BRAWLY BROWN (PB)
BAD BOY BRAWLY BROWN (PB)
BLACK BETTY
BLACK BETTY (PB)
BLACK BETTY (PB)
BLACK BETTY (PB)
BLACK GENIUS (PB)
BLIND FAITH (HB)
BLONDE FAITH (CD)
BLONDE FAITH (PB)
BLOOD GROVE
BLOOD GROVE (HB)
BLUE LIGHT (NEW EDITION) (PB)
CHARCOAL JOE: THE LATEST EASY RAWLINS MYSTERY
CHARCOAL JOE: THE LATEST EASY RAWLINS MYSTERY (HB)
CHARCOAL JOE: THE LATEST EASY RAWLINS MYSTERY (PB)
CINNAMON KISS
CINNAMON KISS (HB)
CINNAMON KISS (HB)
CINNAMON KISS (PB)
CINNAMON KISS (PB)
CONVERSATIONS WITH WALTER MOSLEY
CONVERSATIONS WITH WALTER MOSLEY (HB)
DEBBIE DOESN''T DO IT ANYMORE
DEBBIE DOESN'T DO IT ANYMORE (HB)
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) (PB)
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (HB)
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (PB)
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (PB)
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (PB)
DIABLERIE
DIABLERIE (CD)
DIABLERIE (CD)
DIABLERIE (CD)
DIABLERIE (PB)
DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA (CD)
DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA (HB)
DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA (HB)
DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA (HB)
DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA (PB)
DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA (PB)
DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA (PB)
ENCHANTED/LOVERS & PLAYERS/HID (PB)
EVERY MAN A KING (HB)
EVERY MAN A KING (HB)
EVERY MAN A KING (PB)
EVERY MAN A KING (PB)
FAREWELL, AMETHYSTINE (HB)
FEAR ITSELF (PB)
FEAR ITSELF (PB)
FEAR OF THE DARK (PB)
FEAR OF THE DARK (PB)
FEARLESS JONES (PB)
FEARLESS JONES (PB)
FORTUNATE SON (PB)
FORTUNATE SON (PB)
FORTUNATE SON (PB)
FUTURELAND (PB)
GIFT OF FIRE / ON THE HEAD OF A PIN (HB)
GONE FISHIN' (PB)
GONE FISHIN' (PB)
INSIDE A SILVER BOX (HB)
INSIDE A SILVER BOX (PB)
KILLING JOHNNY FRY
KILLING JOHNNY FRY (PB)
KILLING JOHNNY FRY (PB)
KNOWN TO EVIL
KNOWN TO EVIL (HB)
KNOWN TO EVIL (PB)
KNOWN TO EVIL (PB)
LAST DAYS OF PTOLEMY GREY
LITTLE GREEN
LITTLE GREEN (HB)
LITTLE GREEN (PB)
LITTLE GREEN (PB)
LITTLE SCARLET
LITTLE SCARLET (PB)
LITTLE YELLOW DOG (HB)
LITTLE YELLOW DOG (PB)
LITTLE YELLOW DOG (PB)
MAN IN MY BASEMENT (PB)
MERGE / DISCIPLE (HB)
MERGE / DISCIPLE (PB)
R.L.''S DREAM (PB)
R.L.'S DREAM (PB)
RED DEATH
RED DEATH (PB)
RED DEATH (PB)
RIGHT MISTAKE (HB)
ROSE GOLD
ROSE GOLD (HB)
ROSE GOLD (PB)
ROSE GOLD (PB)
SIX EASY PIECES (PB)
SIX EASY PIECES (PB)
STEPPING STONE / LOVE MACHINE:CROSSTOWN TO OBLIVION (PB)
STEPPING STONE AND THE LOVE MACHINE (HB)
THE FALL OF HEAVEN (PB)
THE GIFT OF FIRE AND ON THE HEAD OF A PIN (PB)
THE LONG FALL (HB)
THE LONG FALL (PB)
THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT (PB)
THE OBAMA INHERITANCE (PB)
THE RIGHT MISTAKE
THE RIGHT MISTAKE (PB)
THIS YEAR YOU WRITE YOUR NOVEL (HB)
THIS YEAR YOU WRITE YOUR NOVEL (PB)
TROUBLE IS WHAT I DO
TROUBLE IS WHAT I DO (HB)
TROUBLE IS WHAT I DO (PB)
TROUBLE IS WHAT I DO (PB)
TWELVE STEPS TOWARD POLITICAL REVELATION
TWELVE STEPS TOWARD POLITICAL REVELATION (PB)
WALKIN' THE DOG (HB)
WALKIN' THE DOG (PB)
WALKIN'' THE DOG (HB)
WALKIN'' THE DOG (PB)
WALTER MOSLEY OMNIBUS (PB)
WHAT NEXT (PB)
WHAT NEXT - A MEMOIR TOWARD WORLD PEACE (HB)
WHEN THE THRILL IS GONE (HB)
WHEN THE THRILL IS GONE (PB)
WHITE BUTTERFLY (PB)
WHITE BUTTERFLY (PB)
WORKIN' ON THE CHAIN GANG (PB)
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