{"product_id":"flight-to-canada-9780684847504","title":"Flight to Canada","description":"\u003cb\u003eIshmael Reed has created a sharp, wildly funny slave's-eye view of the Civil War.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThree slaves infected with Dysaethesia Aethipica (a term coined in the nineteenth century for the disease that makes Negroes run away) escape from Virginia. Not satisfied with leaving slavery halfway, one of the trio has vowed to go the whole distance to Canada; his master, Arthur Swille, determined to recover his property, pursues, hot on Raven Quickskill's trail. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith myth-bending ingenuity, Reed merges history, fantasy, political reality, and high comedy as he parodies the fugitive slave narrative: the slave-poet Quickskill flees to Canada on a nonstop jumbo jet; Abe Lincoln waltzes through slave quarters to the tune of \"Hello Dolly\"; the plantation mistress lies in bed watching the Beecher Hour on TV. \u003ci\u003eFlight to Canada\u003c\/i\u003e's preposterous episodes leap out from the pages of history to reveal a keen sense of America past and present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIshmael Reed is the author of over twenty-five books and plays, including \u003ci\u003eMumbo Jumbo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFlight to Canada\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConjugating Hindi\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhy No Confederate Statues in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhy the Black Hole Sings the Blues\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Audible originals \u003ci\u003eMalcolm and Me\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Fool Who Thought Too Much\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also a publisher, television producer, songwriter, radio and television commentator, lecturer, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition, or Neo-Hoodooism. A regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eCounterPunch\u003c\/i\u003e and founder of the Before Columbus Foundation, Reed taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for over thirty years. He has received the MacArthur Fellowship, the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award. Reed has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and is the only person to be nominated for the National Book Award in two categories in the same year.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50610768085266,"sku":"9780684847504","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8d97bc63-dec9-48e7-a84c-3d18dc73a568.jpg?v=1732349054","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/flight-to-canada-9780684847504","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}