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Pynchon trope alert:
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....The
story comes to us as a memoir written by a former slave named George
Washington Black, an ironic appellation that pricks at the festering wound
in American mythology. When we first meet Wash — as he’s known — he’s about
11 years old, working on the Faith Plantation in Barbados. His master is
shockingly cruel, even by the standards of Caribbean slavery. But when the
master’s brother visits from England, Wash meets a white man who seems
created from some wholly alien material.

This strange visitor is named Titch, and he will become the central figure
of Wash’s life and the enduring mystery of Edugyan’s novel. Freed from the
daily responsibility and, he imagines, the moral culpability of running the
family business, Titch has devoted himself to science. His latest project
is a lighter-than-air contraption he calls “a Cloud-cutter,” and,
fortuitously, Wash is exactly the right weight to provide additional
ballast to test the balloon’s viability. A partnership, of sorts, is
born....
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WASHINGTONPOST.COM|BY RON CHARLES
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Review | In ‘Washington Black,’ a 19th-century slave escapes on a balloon
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Esi Edugyan’s novel is one of the most anticipated books of the year.