book cover of Oxherding Tale
 

Oxherding Tale

(1982)
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One night in the antebellum South, a slave-owner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours drinking and playing cards. They drunkenly agree to switch beds and the result is an offspring, Andrew Hawkins, whose life becomes the "Oxherding Tale".


Genre: Literary Fiction

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