Appointed: An American Novel

by William H. Anderson and Walter H. Stowers

Book Overview

Appointed is a recently recovered novel written by William Anderson and Walter Stowers, two of the editors of the Detroit Plaindealer , a long-running and well-regarded African American newspaper of the late nineteenth century. Drawing heavily on nineteenth-century print culture, the authors tell the story of John Saunders, a college-educated black man living and working in Detroit. Through a bizarre Set of circumstances, Saunders befriends his white...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949199002
• ISBN13: 9781949199000
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"