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Flight to Canada
`Reinvents the particulars of slavery in America with a comic rage … The book explodes. Reed`s special grace is anger … a muscular, luminous prose` The New York Times`It always was, and will always be the most fearlessly original, most viciously political, most rambunctiously funny epic of slavery ever written. America almost doesn`t deserve it` – Marlon James (2015 Man Booker Prize Winner)`I loves it here … We gets whipped with a velvet whip, and there`s free dentalcare`Three slaves are on the run in the deep South, with their former master hot on their heels and the Civil War raging.One of them arms himself for a final showdown; one sells his body for pornographic movies; while the last, Raven Quickskill – hero, poet, heartbreaker – swigs champagne on a non-stop jumbo jet to Canada. Taking us on a wild ride through a nineteenth century littered with limousines, waterbeds and colour TVs, Flight to Canada is a surreal, madly funny satire on race in America.`A satirical “neo-slave narrative”, the novel wittily conjoins the past of slavery to the present of America`s bicentennial` New York Review of Books