Flight to Canada av Ishmael Reed

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<p><b>''Reinvents the particulars of slavery in America with a comic rage ... The book explodes. Reed''s special grace is anger ... a muscular, luminous prose'' </b><i><b>The New York Times</b></i><br><br><b>''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)</b><br><br>''I loves it here ... We gets whipped with a velvet whip, and there''s free dentalcare''<br><br>Three slaves are on the run in the deep South, with their former master hot on their heels and the Civil War raging.<br><br>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, <i>Flight to Canada<