The Chaneysville Incident
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: May 23, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780060916817
Subjects: Modern fiction; Popular American Fiction; History; Fiction - Historical; Fiction; History: World; General; Historical - General; History / General; Psychological; Literary; African American Literature; Afro-American historians; Philadelphia (Pa.); Underground railroad
First sentence: SOMETIMES YOU CAN HEAR THE WIRE, hear it reaching out across the miles; whining with its own weight, crying from the cold, panting at the distance, humming with the phantom sounds of someone else's conversation.