The Last Days of Louisiana Red
by Ishmael Reed (9781564782366)

-- When Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday hoodoo, and hero of Reed's Mumbo Jumbo) comes to Berkeley, California, to investigate the mysterious death of Ed Yellings, owner of the Solid Gumbo Works, he finds himself fighting the rising tide of violence propagated by Louisiana Red and those militant opportunists, the Moochers. The Last Days of Louisiana Red is both a hoodoo detective story and a comprehensive satire on the explosive politics of the '60s.
-- The Last Days of Louisiana Red received the Richard and Linda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1974.
-- The author of over twenty books, including The Free-Lance Pallbearers, Mumbo Jumbo and Flight to Canada, Ishmael Reed has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the American Civil Liberties Award, among others. He has received two nominations for the National Book Award as well as a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize.
-- First published by Random House ('74), most recent paperback by Atheneum ('89).

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