Gabriel's Story

A Novel (Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award)

David Anthony Durham

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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
30 April 2002

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Westerns; Historical fiction

When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil on the untamed prairie. So he joins up with a motley crew headed for Texas only to be sucked into an ever-westward wandering replete with a mindless violence he can neither abet nor avoid-a terrifying trek he penitently fears may never allow for a safe return. David Anthony Durham is a genuine talent bent on devastating originality and Gabriel's Story is as formidable a debut as we have witnessed.

By: David Anthony Durham
Imprint: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 233g
ISBN: 9780385720335
ISBN 10: 0385720335
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 30 April 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Anthony Durham was born in 1969 to parents of Caribbean ancestry. He won the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Fiction Award in 1992 and received an MFA from the University of Maryland in 1996. He has lived and traveled widely throughout America and Europe. Durham, along with his wife and daughter, now divides his time between the United States and Scotland.

Reviews for Gabriel's Story: A Novel (Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award)

Wise and beautifully written. -USA Today Artistically impressive and emotionally satisfying, a serious work that heads off in exhilarating directions. -The New York Times Book Review Sweeps the reader up into a fascinating, Oz-like whirlwind of language. -San Francisco Chronicle Moving. . . . The moral gravity of Durham's narrative is offset by his attentiveness to the primacy of nature in the Western landscape. -The New Yorker Durham captures with exquisite precision the isolation, loneliness and cruelty of life in the vastness of the West . . . . The reader turns the last page with regret at the journey's end. -The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)