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Gabriel's Story

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Gabriel's Story

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.

Gabriel's Story
by David Anthony Durham

  • Publication Date: April 30, 2002
  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Anchor
  • ISBN-10: 0385720335
  • ISBN-13: 9780385720335