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Spiegel & Grau
March 2011
On Sale: March 1, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 0812981588
EAN: 9780812981582
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A comic journey into the ultimate land of whiteness by an
unlikely band of African American adventurers
Recently canned professor of American literature Chris
Jaynes is obsessed with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe’s strange and only novel. When
he discovers the manuscript of a crude slave narrative that
seems to confirm the reality of Poe’s fiction, he resolves
to seek out Tsalal, the remote island of pure and utter
blackness that Poe describes with horror. Jaynes imagines it
to be the last untouched bastion of the African Diaspora and
the key to his personal salvation. He convenes an all-black crew of six to follow Pym’s trail
to the South Pole in search of adventure, natural resources
to exploit, and, for Jaynes at least, the mythical world of
the novel. With little but the firsthand account from which
Poe derived his seafaring tale, a bag of bones, and a stash
of Little Debbie snack cakes, Jaynes embarks on an epic
journey under the permafrost of Antarctica, beneath the
surface of American history, and behind one of literature’s
great mysteries. He finds that here, there be monsters.
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