Softcover. NY, Ticknor & Fields , Uncorr. Proof, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, uncorrected proof of this author's second book who has won a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" as well as a Lannan Foundation award, and been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. A story told as the journal of a privileged 14-year-old boy, the owner's son, and a captain's apprentice on a slave ship. He is one of the few on board to know before the ship leaves port that its true commission is as a slaver, not as a whaling ship. Orange wrappers, clean and bright.
