- Fiction, Racism, African Americans, New York Times reviewed
Since the publication of his first novel, The Free-Lance Pallbearers, and through works such as Mumbo Jumbo and The Last Days of Louisiana Red, Ishmael Reed has forged a reputation as "the brightest contributor to American satire since Mark Twain" (The Nation).
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Contemporary, cool, comic and relentless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Ishmael Reed
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 225
- Publisher
- Atheneum, Penguin Books, Maxwell Macmillan Canada
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780689120725
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