REED, Ishmael.
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. , 1969.
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"This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid... a desperado so onery he made the Pope cry": First edition Ishmael Reed's Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down; inscribed by him to fellow writer William Hjortsberg
First edition of the author's second novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Gatz many good wishes Ishmael Reed." The recipient, William "Gatz" Hjortsberg was an American novelist and screenwriter, best-known for writing the screenplay of the film 1985 American epic dark fantasy adventure film Legend, directed by Ridley Scott. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Nick Peters.
A satirical take on the traditional Western, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down tells the story of the Loop Garoo Kid, an African-American cowboy who practices the religion of Neohoodooism, and describes his struggle against established religion and cultural oppression. The work was rated one of the 100 Best Books in the 20th Century by the American Book Review and a San Francisco Chronicle poll. "Ishmael Reed is a most talented humorist and possessor of a powerfully antic and lyric imagination...Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down should be read as hard evidence of Reed's uncommon talent" (The New Yorker).
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down.
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