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I was underwhelmed by this short-listed for the 2018 Man Booker Prize novel. I am a big fan of works of historical fiction but
Washington Black
did not shed any new light for me on the subject of slavery in the 19th century. Once miraculously delivered from his life of slavery, our hero Washington Black's story is an adventurous one featuring a cast of larger than life, eccentric characters in an ever-changing, disparate range of settings. Although the novel was well written and enjoyable to
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