An edition of Any known blood (1997)

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An edition of Any known blood (1997)

Any known blood

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There were Canes in Canada before the United States erupted into civil war. Their roots are deep, their legacy is rich, but Langston Cane V knows little of his heritage. He is thirty-eight, divorced, and childless and has just been fired for sabotaging a government official's speech. The eldest son of a white mother and prominent black father, Langston feels more acutely than ever the burden of his illustrious family name and his racially mixed heritage.

To be black in a white society is hard enough; to be half-black, half-white is to have no identity at all. Or so Langston believes. After a run-in with his father, Langston takes off for his feisty aunt's house in Baltimore, where he embarks on a remarkable quest for his family's past.

It's said that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it, but to Langston, history offers not condemnation but reprieve. For when he stumbles across a treasure trove of family documents, he sets off on a journey through time that will lead him back to the famous antislavery raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and the great-great-grandfather who fought beside John Brown. He rediscovers the long line of relatives who have battled for racial justice, decade after decade.

He finds passion, dignity, and courage - and, at last, by unearthing and giving voice to those who came before him, he finds himself.

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Publisher
Morrow
Language
English
Pages
512

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1997, Morrow
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 508-509).

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PR9199.3.H479 A59 1997, PR9199.3.H479A59, PR9199.3.H479 A59 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 512 p. :
Number of pages
512

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL386474M
Internet Archive
anyknownblood00hill
ISBN 10
0688162088
LCCN
98049216
OCLC/WorldCat
40200032
Library Thing
320062
Goodreads
1887035

Work Description

Langston Cane V is 38, divorced and working as a government speechwriter, until he’s fired for sabotaging the minister’s speech. It seems the perfect time for Langston, the eldest son of a white mother and prominent black father, to embark on a quest to discover his family’s past -- and his own sense of self.

Any Known Blood follows five generations of an African-Canadian-American family in a compelling story that slips effortlessly from the slave trade of 19th-century Virginia to the modern, predominantly white suburbs of Oakville, Ontario -- once a final stop on the Underground Railroad. Elegant and sensuous, wry and witty, it is an engrossing tale about one man’s attempt to find himself through unearthing and giving voice to those who came before him.

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