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Gabriel's Story
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
AuthorDavid Anthony Durham
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical fiction novel
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
2001
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hard and paperback)
Pages304 pp
ISBN978-0-385-49814-2
OCLC43567440
813/.6 21
LC ClassPS3554.U677 G33 2001

Gabriel's Story is a novel by American author David Anthony Durham published by Doubleday in 2001.

Plot summary

Durham made his literary debut with a novel which, in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, views the American West through an original lens. Set in the 1870s, the novel tells the tale of Gabriel Lynch, an African American youth who settles with his family in the plains of Kansas. Dissatisfied with the drudgery of homesteading and growing increasingly disconnected from his family, Gabriel forsakes the farm for a life of higher adventure. Thus begins a forbidding trek into a terrain of austere beauty, a journey begun in hope, but soon laced with danger and propelled by a cast of brutal characters. By writing about African American characters, Durham gave voice to a population seldom included in our Western lore.

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