Yellow back radio broke-down / Ishmael Reed.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Reed, Ishmael, 1938-

Contributor:

• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

• American literature series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• African American cowboys--Fiction.
• Cowboys--Fiction.
• Cowboys.
• African American cowboys.

Genre:

• Fiction.
• Satirical literature.
• Western stories.

Penn Provenance:

• Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

177 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First Dalkey Archive edition.

Place of Publication:

[Normal, IL] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2000.

Summary:

""Folks, this here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick. A bullwhacker so unfeeling he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling women. A desperado so onery he made the Pope cry and the most powerful of cattlemen shed his head to the Executioner's swine." And so begins the HooDoo Western by Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo Jumbo and one of America's most innovative and celebrated writers. Reed demolishes white American history and folklore as well as Christian myth in this masterful satire of contemporary American life. In addition to the black, satanic Loop Garoo Kid, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down features Drag Gibson (a rich, slovenly cattleman), Mustache Sal (his nymphomaniac mail-order bride), Thomas Jefferson and many others in a hilarious parody of the old Western."--Jacket.

Contents:

• The Loop Garoo Kid goes away mad
• The Loop Garoo Kid comes back mad
• She may not be the rancher's daughter but she sure can cook
• If it had been a snake it would have bit him
• A jigsaw of a last minute rescue.

ISBN:

• 1564782387
• 9781564782380

OCLC:

43333542