Description
| Product ID: | 9780316016353 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | 47 |
| Authors: | Author: Walter Mosley |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. Master storyteller Walter Mosley deftly mixes speculative and historical fiction in this daring New York Times bestselling novel, reminiscent of Colson Whitehead''s The Underground Railroad. 47 is a young slave boy living under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master. His life seems doomed until he meets a mysterious runaway slave, Tall John. 47 finds himself swept up in a struggle for his own liberation. |
| Imprint Name: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Publisher Name: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-11-30 |
