New York & London: Faber & Faber, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth novel by the author now best known for 'Erasure' (basis for the film "American Fiction") and the first book in the publisher's Callaloo series, dedicated to books by "writers of African descent." This is a "corrosively funny and disquieting picaresque novel which addresses the politics of identity and the racist brutality that marked America's westward expansion after the Civil War." The NY Times review noted that it "starts sour, then abruptly turns into Cowpoke Absurdism, ending with an acute hallucination of blood, hate and magic. It's worth the wait. The novel sears." SIGNED on the title page. Hard to find in the first…
New York & London: Faber & Faber, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth novel by the author now best known for 'Erasure' (basis for the film "American Fiction") and the first book in the publisher's Callaloo series, dedicated to books by "writers of African descent." This is a "corrosively funny and disquieting picaresque novel which addresses the politics of identity and the racist brutality that marked America's westward expansion after the Civil War." The NY Times review noted that it "starts sour, then abruptly turns into Cowpoke Absurdism, ending with an acute hallucination of blood, hate and magic. It's worth the wait. The novel sears." SIGNED on the title page. Hard to find in the first edition, and especially so signed and in this condition. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 219 pp. ISBN: 978-057119832-0.
