'Reinvents the particulars of slavery in America with a comic rage ... The book explodes. Reed's special grace is anger ... a muscular, luminous prose' The New York Times 'It always was, and will always be the most fearlessly original, most viciously political, most rambunctiously funny epic of slavery ever written. America almost doesn't deserve it' - Marlon James (2015 Man Booker Prize Winner) 'I loves it here ... We gets whipped with a velvet whip, and there's free dentalcare' Three slaves are on the run in the ...
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'Reinvents the particulars of slavery in America with a comic rage ... The book explodes. Reed's special grace is anger ... a muscular, luminous prose' The New York Times 'It always was, and will always be the most fearlessly original, most viciously political, most rambunctiously funny epic of slavery ever written. America almost doesn't deserve it' - Marlon James (2015 Man Booker Prize Winner) 'I loves it here ... We gets whipped with a velvet whip, and there's free dentalcare' Three slaves are on the run in the deep South, with their former master hot on their heels and the Civil War raging. One of them arms himself for a final showdown; one sells his body for pornographic movies; while the last, Raven Quickskill - hero, poet, heartbreaker - swigs champagne on a non-stop jumbo jet to Canada. Taking us on a wild ride through a nineteenth century littered with limousines, waterbeds and colour TVs, Flight to Canada is a surreal, madly funny satire on race in America. 'A satirical "neo-slave narrative", the novel wittily conjoins the past of slavery to the present of America's bicentennial' New York Review of Books
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Add this copy of Flight to Canada to cart. $4.37, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brownstown, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Random House (NY).
Add this copy of Flight to Canada to cart. $4.37, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brownstown, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Random House (NY).
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Very good. New York. 1976. September 1976. Random House. 1st Edition. A Few Very Small Stain Marks On Front Free Endpaper, Otherwise Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0394487540. 181 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Mike Stromberg. keywords: Literature America Black. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Ishmael Reed proves he's a formidable historical novelist in this sharp, wildly funny slave's-eye-view of the Civil War. Three slaves infected with Dysaethesia Aethipica (a term coined in the nineteenth century for the disease that makes Negroes run away) escape from Virginia. inventory #15754.
Add this copy of Flight to Canada to cart. $20.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Random House.
Add this copy of Flight to Canada to cart. $20.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Random House.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Slightly bowed boards and faint spotting thus very good in a very good dust jacket with short tease and edgewear.
Add this copy of Flight to Canada to cart. $20.85, very good condition, Sold by Vashon Island Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Vashon, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Random House [1976].
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Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 73/4"-93/4" tall. In brown jacket over cloth backed boards, 8vo DJ 179pp (shelfwear and rubbing to jacket at extremities).