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Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down is a novel by the African-American writer Ishmael Reed. It is a satirical take on the traditional Western. It is Ishmael Reed's second novel, following The Freelance Pallbearers (1967), and was first published in 1969. It tells the story of the Loop Garoo Kid, an African-American cowboy who practices the ...
- Ishmael Reed
- 177 pp
- 1969
- 1969 (Doubleday)
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down. Ishmael Reed. 3.80. 702 ratings73 reviews. "Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick. A bullwhacker so unfeeling he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling women.
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Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down is an updated parody of the Western dime novel, a comic epic of the Old West. Whether by chance or by fate, Loop and the traveling circus enter Yellow...
20. Feb. 2017 · Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down jumps into the narrative of the main protagonist, Loop Garoo, a black, silver tongued, circus cowboy, who represents the devil to the white men. … Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down was rated one of the 100 Best Books in the 20th Century by the American Book Review and a San Francisco Chronicle poll ...
10. Mai 2012 · Yellow back radio broke-down. by. Ishmael Reed. Publication date. 1988. Topics. African American cowboys -- Fiction, Cowboys -- Fiction. Publisher. Atheneum.
In addition to the black, satanic Loop Garoo Kid, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down features Drag Gibson (a rich, slovenly cattleman), Mustache Sal (his nymphomaniac mail-order bride), Thomas...
In the violent Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (1969) the hero is a Black circus cowboy with cloven hooves who goes by the name the Loop Garoo Kid. Mumbo Jumbo (1972), Reed’s most-celebrated novel, pits proponents of rationalism and militarism against believers in the magical and the intuitive. The…. Read More.
