Pym - Mat Johnson

Category: Humor, Novel, Sci-Fi
Language: English
Keywords: African American Alternate History antarctica Edgar Allan Poe The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Written by Mat Johnson
Read by J.D. Jackson
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Recently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes has just made a startling discovery: the manuscript of a crude slave narrative that confirms the reality of Edgar Allan Poe’s strange and only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Determined to seek out Tsalal, the remote island of pure and utter blackness that Poe describes, Jaynes convenes an all-black crew of six to follow Pym’s trail to the South Pole, armed 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. Thus begins an epic journey by an unlikely band of adventurers under the permafrost of Antarctica, beneath the surface of American history, and behind one of literature’s great mysteries.

Audio Release Date:
June 15 2011

11 hrs and 32 mins