The Last Days of Louisiana Red: A Novel
Language: English
Published by Random House, 1974
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.Easy Chair Books
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Condition: Used - Fair
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Light discoloring and wear; a solid book. Stamp inside from previous owner, John Domini, author and critic. There are marks and underlining, some in ink, from him throughout. The jacket has light wear, yellowing; good otherwise. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0394491882. ISBN/EAN: 9780394491882. Inventory No: 231822.
Seller Inventory # 231822
- Title
- The Last Days of Louisiana Red: A Novel
- Author
- Reed, Ishmael
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publication year
- 1974
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0394491882
- ISBN 13
- 9780394491882
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction
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Review
This is a very alive novel of living folklore; sometimes Reed's prose feels like walking through a field teeming with wild game which jumps out from under your feet.
Reed at his bravura best in the use of language and parody.
This novel disguised as a verbal comic strip is brilliant and funny.
A tangle of allusions, an allegorical puzzle that keeps the mind on its toes . . . Mr. Reed exercises in jokes and wisecracks, scholarship and satire. All of which makes for a frenetic form of vaudeville show.
Ishmael Reed has a shrewd eye, a mean ear, a nasty tongue . . . He attacks self-serving hypocrisy wherever he finds it . . . We may be horrified or amused or both. But we are too fascinated to go away.
Reed can hardly be accused of eye rolling and cakewalking for his supper. His angers and resentments are sheathed in intelligence, learning, scatological wit and showmanship. One thinks of Redd Foxx ...more before he was Sanfordized . . . Reed's approach to the novel is not unlike a Dixieland band's approach to music: a native American diversity that adds up to a unified style authentic and endlessly fresh.
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