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Seller: Ishmael Reed Publishing, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.Ishmael Reed Publishing
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William Demby, author of the now classic novels "Beetlecreek (1950)," "The Catacombs (1965)," "Love Story Black (1978)" and "Blue Boy (1980)," has been called the greatest neglected African-American writer of the 20th century. At long last, this publication of "King Comus," a novel completed shortly before his death in 2013, caps his already great literary achievements with a work that may well come to be considered his masterpiece. In "King Comus," the path to freedom of a master musician and escaped slave, known as King Comus, converges with two African American World War II servicemen, their white commanding officer and a black female gospel singer. King Comus fabled journey across continents and centuries is narrated, in part, by his descendant Tillman, a World War II GI serving in Italy. Tillman relates his family s history to a fellow serviceman named D., whose role in this mysterious tale includes some parallels to the author s life story. When the plotline turns to the twenty-first century, these veterans unite in Italy with their white commanding officer, Joe Stabat, to stage a colossal global gospel summit in Rome, featuring the gospel star, Little Antioch. "King Comus" weaves elements of the neo-slave narrative and Afrofuturism into a panoramic vision encompassing the forces of empire, race, gender, and religion. It is a time-bending tale of survival and kinship. ' King Comus': Rediscovered novel of the Year Jeff Biggers, Huffington Post To the long-standing need for cultural producers to imagine new and better futureswe can now addthe recently rediscovered William Demby novel King Comus. Renee Hudson, Los Angeles Review of Books Ishmael Reed Publishing is offering "King Comus at a discount of one third off of the cover price.…
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- Title
- King Comus
- Author
- William Demby
- Publisher
- Ishmael Reed Publishing Company
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0918408253
- ISBN 13
- 9780918408259
- Illustrator
- None
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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Ishmael Reed Publishing
Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since August 2, 2024
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Ishmael Reed Publishing Company is an independent small press, which currently publishes one to two titles per year, although the press has published over sixty books under different imprints since the 1970s. They also publish an online magazine "Konch." Ishmael Reed is publisher and editor. Carla Blank is project editor and Tennessee Reed is the managing editor of "Konch."
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Since 1974, Ishmael Reed has published a distinguished list of poetry, fiction and non-fiction works under various imprints. His current imprint, Ishmael Reed Publishing Company, has released titles by writing luminaries including Amiri Baraka, Genny Lim, Alison Mills Newman, Askia Toure, Calvin Hernton, Neli Moody, Karla Brundage, Kathryn Takara, Yuri Kageyama, Ishmael Hope and William Demby.
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