Dixon, descending : a novel / Karen Outen.
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TextPublisher: [New York] : Dutton, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Description: 319 pages : map ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780593473450Subject(s): Middle class African Americans -- Fiction | African American men -- Fiction | Brothers -- Fiction | Mountaineering -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- Fiction | Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- FictionGenre/Form: Sports fiction. | Action and adventure fiction. DDC classification: 813/.6 LOC classification: PS3615.U875 | D59 2024Summary: "Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. When his charming older brother, Nate, suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, Dixon can't refuse. Once on the mountain, they are met with extreme weather conditions, oxygen deprivation, and precarious terrain. But as much as they've prepared for this, Mt. Everest is always fickle. And in one devastating moment, Dixon's world is upended."-- Provided by publisher.
| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | OUTE (Browse shelf) | Available | 66058 |
"Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. When his charming older brother, Nate, suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, Dixon can't refuse. Once on the mountain, they are met with extreme weather conditions, oxygen deprivation, and precarious terrain. But as much as they've prepared for this, Mt. Everest is always fickle. And in one devastating moment, Dixon's world is upended."-- Provided by publisher.
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