Yellow Back Radio Broke Down

Ishmael Reed

ISBN 10: 0380017512 / ISBN 13: 9780380017515

Published by Avon Books, 1977

About this Item

Softcover; mass-media production size. White spine with green lettering, orange cover with illustration. Good condition; shows signs of wear and age with light chipping to the front and back cover. Light foxing on the inside front cover. No date on the title page. Copyright page dated 1969 and stated first Bard printing: September, 1977. 213 pages. Pages have some annotating (not effecting text) with some overall fading. Please contact us with questions or if you d like to see photographs. Seller Inventory # 21-809

Bibliographic Details

Title: Yellow Back Radio Broke Down

Publisher: Avon Books

Publication Date: 1977

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis:

Black and beautiful Loop Garoo Kid performs lariat tricks in a circus, but when they arrive in Yellow Back Radio, they're surprised to find all the adults have been run out of town by the children

About the Author:

Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) is an acclaimed multifaceted writer whose work often engages with overlooked aspects of the American experience. He has published ten novels, including Flight to Canada and Mumbo Jumbo, as well as plays and collections of essays and poetry. He was nominated for a National Book Award in both poetry and prose in 1972. Conjure (1972), a volume of poetry, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and his New and Collected Poems: 1964–2006 (2007) received a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California. Reed has also received a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Blues Song Writer of the Year award from the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame, a Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the National Institute for Arts and Letters, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Reed taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for thirty-five years and currently lives in Oakland, California.