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Synopsis
Private investigator Papa La Bas tries to put an end to the psychological stress threatening human life
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About the Author
Ishmael Reed is the author of over twenty-five books—including Mumbo Jumbo, The Last Days of Louisiana Red, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down and Juice!. He is also a publisher, television producer, songwriter, radio and television commentator, lecturer, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition, or “Neo-Hoodooism” as he calls it. Founder of the Before Columbus Foundation, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley for over thirty years, retiring in 2005. In 2003, he received the coveted Otto Award for political theater.
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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. (Time )
Funky, hip, and cool . . . The language is re-cycled garbage that sometimes, amazingly, becomes poetry and almost always is authentic, alive. (Choice )
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. (Village Voice )
This novel disguised as a verbal comic strip is brilliant and funny. (Library Journal )
Reed at his bravura best in the use of language and parody. (Publishers Weekly )
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. (The New York Times )
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. (The New York Times Book Review )
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The Last Days of Louisiana Red
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0394491882I5N01
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The Last Days of Louisiana Red
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0394491882I3N10
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The Last Days of Louisiana Red: A Novel
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Random House, 1974
ISBN 10: 0394491882
ISBN 13: 9780394491882
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 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
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THE LAST DAYS OF LOUISIANA RED
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ISBN 13: 9780394491882
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+++. First Edition. 179pp. Red lining papers. Red cloth spine with bright gilt title on spine and red paper over boards with metallic red title on front board. Red top edges. Pc red and yellow decorative Dust Jacket. Ex library copy with usual scars. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # 000683
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The Last Days of Louisiana Red: A Novel
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ISBN 13: 9780394491882
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, Not Price Clipped. American First. First edition, first printing as evidenced by a complete number line from 2 to 9 with the words First Edition printed underneath in Random House style; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; a few watermarks on top edge; one crease on front dust jacket flap; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectible condition. Book. Seller Inventory # 004105
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The Last Days of Louisiana Red
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ***please read*** no marks on text - DJ inside a mylar sleeve - my shelf location 22-F-8*. Seller Inventory # 200623024
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The Last Days of Louisiana Red
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This first edition has little corner bumping or edge wear. Clipped DJ has some light rubbing, wear. Interior text has darkened with age, clean and tight in binding, Seller Inventory # 605536
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The Last Days of Louisiana Red
Published by
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ISBN 10: 0394491882
ISBN 13: 9780394491882
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Seller: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 179pp. Red lining papers. Red paper and cloth boards with with bright title and gilt title on spine. Pictorial Dust Jacket with title and title on spine panel. Seller Inventory # 2256
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The Last Days of Louisiana Red
Published by
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ISBN 10: 0394491882
ISBN 13: 9780394491882
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hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. New York. 1974. October 1974. Random House. 1st American Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Faded Dustjacket. 0394491882. 179 pages. hardcover. Cover design suggested by Ishmael Reed. keywords: African American America Literature. DESCRIPTION - Louisiana Red is more than just Tabasco's chief rival. Not only will it burn your tongue, it can kill as well. All over the Americas people do each other in because they are full of Louisiana Red, which causes them to slam the door, fly off at the handle and feel the need to cut somebody. After the murder of a 'Business' associate who made an eloquent attempt to put Louisiana Red into its Last Days where it belongs, Papa LaBas, private eye and noonday HooDoo travels to Berkeley, California, 'The City of Many Churches, 'and runs right smack into Louisiana Red and its physical incarnation, Minnie the Moocher, an old rival. Will old Louisiana Red, this hot-headed, red-eyed monster which provokes people to harm each other over a hamburger, prevail? Or will Papa LaBas once again break the case wide open by Using his customary techniques of taking a long shot, dropping hints, planting leaks and sending out feelers? It's an eternal question. inventory #12533 Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Faded Dustjacket. Seller Inventory # z12533
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The Last Days of Louisiana Red
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Publisher: Random House, NY, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. FINE- hardcover book in FINE- dust-jacket. A previous owner's name faintly rubber stamped atop front free end paper. Tiny bit of shelf rub on rear. Not remaindered marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves. Seller Inventory # SKU1023418