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    612-822-4611

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Flight to Canada

Flight to Canada

Reed, Ishmael

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General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0684847507
ISBN13: 9780684847504
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: Jun 2 1998
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.26 Depth: 8.11
Language: English
50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION For half a century, Ishmael Reed has been American literature's most fearless satirist. --The New Yorker

Reed's classic, sharp and characteristically funny story of the Civil War, now with a new foreword by the author and a fresh introduction by Victor Lavalle.

Three slaves infected with Dysaethesia Aethipica (a term coined in the 19th century for the disease that makes Negroes run away) escape from Virginia. Not satisfied with leaving slavery halfway, one of the trio has vowed to go the whole distance to Canada; his master, Arthur Swille, determined to recover his property, pursues, hot on Raven Quickskill's trail.

With myth-bending ingenuity, Reed merges history, fantasy, political reality, and high comedy as he parodies the fugitive slave narrative: the slave-poet Quickskill flees to Canada on a nonstop jumbo jet; Abe Lincoln waltzes through slave quarters to the tune of Hello Dolly; the plantation mistress lies in bed watching the Beecher Hour on TV. Flight to Canada's preposterous episodes leap out from the pages of history to reveal a keen sense of America past and present.

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