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The sleeping car porter / (Record no. 427474)

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CONTROL NUMBER
control field 1302576764
CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field OCoLC
DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20230915121330.0
FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781552454589
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 1552454584
SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (Sirsi) a480122
CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency NLC
Language of cataloging eng
Description conventions rda
Transcribing agency YDX
Modifying agency NLC
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-- NLC
-- YDX
-- JCX
-- NYP
-- ABJ
-- UKMGB
-- TOH
-- UtOrBLW
AUTHENTICATION CODE
Authentication code lac
LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC)
Holding library GZDA
Local processing data jm*
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number C813/.54
Edition number 23
AUTHOR NAME
AUTHOR NAME Mayr, Suzette,
TITLE STATEMENT
Title The sleeping car porter /
Statement of responsibility, etc Suzette Mayr.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First edition.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 219 pages :
Other physical details illustration ;
Dimensions 21 cm
BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-219).
SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a gay man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways. Affecting, imaginative, and visceral enough that you'll feel the rocking of the train, The Sleeping Car Porter is a stunning accomplishment. Baxter's name isn't George. But it's 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he'll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with "George." On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days; their secrets start to leak out and blur with the sleep-deprivation hallucinations Baxter is having. When he finds a naughty postcard of two gay men, Baxter's memories and longings are reawakened; keeping it puts his job in peril, but he can't part with the postcard or his thoughts of Edwin Drew, Porter Instructor."--
ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM AVAILABLE NOTE
Additional physical form available note Issued also in electronic formats.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Racism
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element African American men
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Gay men
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Porters
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sleep deprivation
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Tipping
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Dentistry
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Rail passengers
LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC)
a F MAY 410
Copies
Piece designation (barcode) Koha full call number School Code
MONT21095 Montague Regional High School
GRAY384968Historical F MAYColonel Gray High School