Gabriel's Story: A Novel (Hurston/Wright Legacy Award)

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.

• | Author: David Anthony Durham
• | Publisher: Anchor Books
• | Publication Date: Apr 30, 2002
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0385720335
• | ISBN-13: 9780385720335