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Biographical note
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 Night Hawks, Dr. King’s Refrigerator, Dreamer, Faith and the Good Thing, and Middle Passage, 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.Long after we’d stopped believe in the great American novel, along comes a spellbinding adventure story that may be just that
Chicago Tribune
A novel in the honorable tradition of <i>Billy Budd</i> and <i>Moby Dick</i>... heroic in proportion...fiction that hooks into the mind
New York Times Book Review
A rousing adventure yarn that resonates with and echoes the spirit of early sea stories. . . Johnson has fashioned a tale of travel and tragedy, yearning and history, and done so from a different, rarely explored viewpoint. . . .<i>Middle Passage</i> is a story of slavery, often brilliant in its structure and riveting in the way it's told
San Francisco Chronicle
<i>Middle Passage</i> has it all - rich lyricism and erudition, apocalyptic storms, clumsy ships disintegrating beneath their sputtering sailors and perilous philosophical conflicts.
Independent
No American writer has returned to the past as effectively as this since Toni Morrison's <i>Beloved</i>...a brilliantly written, human, tragicomic odyssey.
Irish Times
History, philosophy and powerful story-telling converge and somehow Johnson gives this indictment of inhumanity grace and humour.
Observer
Stunningly good. . . and in its analysis of the black predicament in America, ranks with the classic <i>Invisble Man</i>
Time Out