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Author(s) | David Anthony Durham |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Historical fiction novel |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 2001 |
Media type | Print (Hardback and paperback) |
Pages | 304 pp |
ISBN | 0385498144 |
OCLC Number | 43567440 |
Dewey Decimal | 813/.6 21 |
LC Classification | PS3554.U677 G33 2001 |
Gabriel's Story is an award-winning 2001 novel by American author David Anthony Durham.
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David Anthony Durham made his literary debut with a haunting novel which, in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, views the American West through an original lens. Set in the 1870s, the novel tells the tale of Gabriel Lynch, an African American youth who settles with his family in the plains of Kansas. Dissatisfied with the drudgery of homesteading and growing increasingly disconnected from his family, Gabriel forsakes the farm for a life of higher adventure. Thus begins a forbidding trek into a terrain of austere beauty, a journey begun in hope, but soon laced with danger and propelled by a cast of brutal characters. By writing about African American characters, Durham gave voice to a population seldom included in our Western lore.